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A week inside a free Syria. ‘A mixture of joy and euphoria, but also there is huge grief’
The power of collaboration: reporting across the India-Pakistan border. Indian journalist Puja Bhattacharjee collaborated with Pakistani journalist Umar Bacha to publish Caught in the India Pakistan Crossfire, an investigation backed by ICFJ’s Stemming the Tide of Intolerance program
Fighting a ‘scourge of secrecy’ and uncovering corruption in Malawi. Interview of investigative journalist Golden Matonga, interim executive director of Platform for Investigative Journalism
Al Jazeera condemns the targeted killing of journalist Ahmad Al-Louh by the Israeli occupation forces in Gaza. Al Jazeera unequivocally condemns the ongoing crimes committed by Israeli occupation forces against journalists and media professionals in Gaza. This alarming trend demands immediate attention and action from the international community
LuxLeaks whistleblower reflects on tax scandal. Ten years ago, Antoine Deltour shook Luxembourg to its foundations. He looks back on the unfair tax practices he exposed as a whistleblower for LuxLeaks. ‘I don’t regret it. But the problem remains’
Kyiv Independent spotlights the mental health of medics in new documentary. In December, the Kyiv Independent premiered Can You Hear Me? The invisible battles of Ukrainian military medics, a one-hour documentary that follows a group of Ukrainian military medics from the heat of battle in war-torn Ukraine to the serene forests of Sweden for a short mental health retreat
Leading companies are using transformation to achieve profitable growth — enabled by specific behaviors. McKinsey’s Sandra Sancier-Sultan and coauthors explore what they are in a new article.
New Knight Press Freedom Fellowship program offers support for at-risk journalists. The Knight Press Freedom Fellowships will support leading journalists from around the world who face censorship or other repressive action. The goal of the fellowship program is to allow threatened journalists to stay in the profession. Journalists of stature who have made a significant contribution to global understanding are eligible for consideration
Bypassing the ‘Taliban firewall’: how an exile newsroom reports on Afghan women. Faisal Karimi and Wahab Siddiqi, respectively founder and editor-in-chief of the Afghanistan Women’s News Agency, were among the first journalists to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban retook control of the country in August 2021. After escaping the country undetected with nearly two dozen newsroom colleagues and family members a week after the fall of Kabul, they made their way to a refugee camp in Albania. Then, they got to work rebuilding the newsroom they had left behind
Dmitry Medvedev says editors of the Times are ‘legitimate military targets.’ Former Russian president’s Telegram post follows paper’s editorial about assassination of a Russian general
IFPIM awards $5 million to support 20 independent newsrooms on four continents. The new grant awards were the outcome of an open call for proposals that attracted more than 450 expressions of interest by media organizations around the globe. The open call was focused on the theme “Audience First,” with the aim of supporting organizations striving to better meet audience needs
Q&A: Shrouq Aila. On documenting a ‘televised genocide’ in Gaza
Georgia: the violence against reporters covering protests has been met with shocking impunity. Reporters Without Borders condems the police’s systematic, organised violence and urges the European Union to act against the impunity of Georgia’s law enforcement, which threatens the country’s democracy
Two men arrested in London over attack on British-Iranian journalist. British police said on Tuesday they arrested two Romanian men over the stabbing of a journalist working for a Persian language media organisation in London in March. Pouria Zeraati, a British-Iranian journalist who works for Iran International, sustained leg injuries in the attack near his home in Wimbledon, southwest London. Counter-terrorism police led the investigation over concerns he had been targeted because of his work at the television news network, which is critical of Iran’s government
Image credit: screenshot from 8 December 2024 CBC News video entitled The fall of the Assad regime in Syria