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Hong Kong media outlet Stand News to close after police raid
Reports say editors, board members and pop singer were held in early morning sweep as 200 officers raid office…
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Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov receive Nobel peace prize in Oslo
Filipina and Russian attend Oslo ceremony despite legal cases filed against Ressa and are first journalists to…
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Nobel winner: ‘We journalists are the defence line between dictatorship and war’
Next week, Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov receive their Nobel peace prizes. In a rare interview, Muratov says …
- Asia Pacific, Europe, Journalist safety, Media, Newspapers, Newspapers & magazines, Nobel peace prize, Norway, Philippines, Press freedom, World news
Philippines court allows Nobel laureate Maria Ressa to go to Norway
Journalist permitted to receive peace prize in person after judge eases travel restrictionsThe Philippine jour…
- Afghanistan, Censorship, Global development, Islam, Journalist safety, Media, Newspapers, Newspapers & magazines, Press freedom, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women in journalism, Women's rights and gender equality, World news
Afghan journalists decry Taliban rules restricting role of women on TV
Journalists asked to wear a hijab and broadcasters told to stop showing dramas featuring female actorsAfghan j…
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Moment Maria Ressa learns of Nobel peace prize win during Zoom call – video
Maria Ressa, the journalist and founder of the Philippine news organisation Rappler, said she was 'speechless'…
- Asia Pacific, China, Focus, Media, Newspapers, Newspapers & magazines, Protest, Tiananmen Square protests 1989, World news
Jonathan Mirsky: reporter who went from Mao fan to fierce Beijing critic
The career of the Observer’s former China correspondent who died last week, was marked by a willingness to rev…
- Afghanistan, Global development, Journalist safety, Media, Newspapers, Newspapers & magazines, Press freedom, South and Central Asia, World news
Taliban’s return ‘a catastrophe’ for journalism in Afghanistan
Head of International Federation of Journalists says ‘future is black’ for 1,300 journalists still in countryJ…
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Jimmy Lai’s Hong Kong media group files for liquidation
Apple Daily publisher Next Digital hopes move will allow payments to be made to creditors and former staffNext…
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‘Hell on earth’: what the papers say about the Kabul bomb blasts
Images of the injured fill the front pages as story of the deadly attack in Afghanistan claimed by Islamic Sta…
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‘Run for your life’: how papers around the world covered the chaos in Kabul
Front pages focus on the extraordinary exodus at the airport and Joe Biden’s unwavering defence of troop withd…
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UK agrees to consider providing safe haven for Afghan journalists
U-turn over those who worked for British media follows outcry from newspapers and broadcastersThe foreign secr…
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‘Stop patronising me and give me an interview’: the female journalists speaking up for India’s poor
India’s only all-women news organisation is the subject of an award-winning documentary. The film-makers expla…
- Censorship, Coronavirus, India, Media, Newspapers, Press freedom, South and Central Asia, World news
Tax raids target Indian paper that criticised government over Covid
Dainik Bhaskar accuses government of pursuing it on trumped-up charges in response to its reportingCoronavirus…
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‘The pressure is unbearable’: final days of Hong Kong’s Apple Daily
Newspaper’s closure shows how pro-democracy movement and press freedom are being crushedOn Wednesday morning, …