Newspapers & magazines
- Afghanistan, Global development, Life and style, Media, Newspapers & magazines, Society, South and Central Asia, Taliban, Women, World news
Zahra Joya: the Afghan reporter who fled the Taliban – and kept telling the truth about women
As a child in Afghanistan, she pretended to be a boy in order to get an education, before starting her own wom…
- 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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Jonathan Mirsky obituary
Journalist and historian of China who went from admiring the regime to being one of its sternest criticsJonath…
- Asia Pacific, China, Hong Kong, Media, Newspaper closures, Newspapers, Newspapers & magazines, World news
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…
- Afghanistan, Dominic Raab, Foreign policy, Journalist safety, Media, Newspapers, Newspapers & magazines, Politics, South and Central Asia, Television & radio, The news on TV, UK news, World news
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…
- Culture, Dalits, Documentary films, Film, India, Law, Media, Newspapers, Newspapers & magazines, Rape and sexual assault, Society, South and Central Asia, World news
‘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…
- Asia Pacific, Censorship, China, Journalist safety, Media, Newspapers & magazines, Press freedom, World news
Press groups raise alarm over threats to foreign media in China
Reporters from international outlets have suffered worsening intimidation while covering Henan floodsPress gro…
- Asia Pacific, Censorship, China, Hong Kong, Media, Newspapers, Newspapers & magazines, Press freedom, World news
‘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, …
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‘Painful farewell’: Hongkongers queue for hours to buy final Apple Daily edition
Million copies printed of last issue as journalists at newspaper that was forced to close mourn ‘historical mo…
- Asia Pacific, China, Hong Kong, Media, Newspapers, Newspapers & magazines, Press freedom, World news
‘The blackest day’: Apple Daily’s demise comes as no surprise
Analysis: A palpable chill has run through the Hong Kong media, amid warnings about ‘fake news’ The fate of Ap…
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Hong Kong leader refuses to say how media can avoid arrest in wake of Apple Daily raids
Carrie Lam denies arrest of senior editorial figures at pro-democracy paper and seizure of its assets was an a…
- Asia Pacific, China, Hong Kong, Media, Newspapers, Newspapers & magazines, Press freedom, World news
‘Worst of times’: Hong Kong media defiant amid police crackdown
Apple Daily hits back after executives arrested in second raid on pro-democracy paper’s newsroomApple Daily’s …