カテゴリー: Media
Inland revenue targets eight outlets, union, 20 journalists and their families with supposed ‘random’ checksHong Kong authorities have targeted journalists and media outlets with what are supposed to be “random” tax audits, in a move the industry union…
Attacks and self censorship, draconian anti-terror laws and tycoons’ control over the media, are all seen as eroding the country’s democracyAt her home in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, Harleen Kapoor* reflects with melancholy on how, sinc…
Corporation responds to ‘urgent need’ following earthquake by taking over Voice of America’s former channelThe BBC has stepped in to launch a news service in Myanmar after the devastating earthquake in the country, replacing a US service that Donald Tr…
Once dubbed the ‘Afghan Rupert Murdoch’, Mohseni’s media business was founded after the fall of the Taliban and is now navigating their returnSaad Mohseni wants more female faces on his Afghan TV channel. He hopes he might get a deal with the Taliban f…
Grisly gifts a worrying turn for press freedom in world’s third-largest democracyWarning: some readers may find an image in this story distressingWhen a large box arrived at the office with her name on it, Indonesian investigative journalist Francisca …
The success of Shit You Should Care About has been down to Lucy Blakiston’s focus on social media at a time where news avoidance is growing Lucy Blakiston, the 27-year-old founder of a thriving global media company, loves being underestimated. And swea…
Raphael Satter had his OCI card taken away after publishing a story critical of an Indian businessmanA US journalist has taken the Indian government to court after his Indian overseas citizenship was unilaterally cancelled, after the publication of a s…
Organisations that take extreme risks to document atrocities, corruption and war crimes fear for their future after USAid cutsEach month Su Myat secretly crosses the border from Thailand into Myanmar to report on her conflict-ridden homeland, covering …
As one of the last female-run stations in the country is silenced, a former broadcaster gives an inside view of the crackdown on women working in the mediaWhen the Taliban began marching towards cities across Afghanistan in the summer of 2021, Alia*, a…
Civil servant Josie Stewart found to have been unlawfully dismissed in 2022 after she told BBC about failures‘Pursue this urgently’: whistleblower case reveals Whitehall focus on Kabul animal airliftA civil servant who blew the whistle about the chaoti…
Loss of USAid funds will sow ‘chaos and confusion’ and force independent media outlets to shut down, says RSF Donald Trump’s foreign aid freeze will lead to a decline in the number of independent media outlets across the world, causing a surge in misin…
Treatment of Gerald Flynn, who writes for the outlet Mongabay, condemned as attack on independent media A British environmental and investigative journalist has been banned from entering Cambodia, in what press groups have condemned as yet another atta…
For nearly two decades, ‘General’ Narsamma and her team at Sangham Radio have honed their craft, learning every aspect of broadcasting, including fixing the radio mast and interview techniquesWords and photographs by Uday NarayananAs twilight settles o…
Mukesh Chandrakar had reported on alleged corruption in the construction industry and had a popular YouTube channel Indian media rights groups have called for an investigation after the body of a missing journalist was found hidden in a septic tank.Muk…