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Moscow court revokes Novaya Gazeta’s licence to publish inside Russia. Ruling by Russia’s media regulator comes less than year after its editor won Nobel peace prize.
Despite growing dangers, reporters are finding new ways to report on the Amazon. Targeted by armed groups, criminals and mining companies, journalists are using technology to bring attention to the world’s biggest rainforest.
Telling the truth – even when it hurts. Neutrality is neither a journalistic custom nor a virtue. Journalists are often partisan. Martha Gellhorn, George Orwell, Robert Capa and Andrée Viollis were not neutral during the Spanish civil war and even less so during the Second World War.
A nefarious and hidden threat to journalists rises. At the end of last year, 293 journalists were in jail around the world (a modern record), and dozens more had been killed. But no one knows precisely how many journalists were hit with crippling and frivolous lawsuits, because the practice, while growing, is largely hidden.
The real criminals are the ones who imprisoned journalist Ivan Safronov. A Meduza editorial.
Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter killed outside home. Jeff German, one of Nevada’s most accomplished and trusted journalists, was found dead with stab wounds outside his home on Saturday morning. German, whose work in Las Vegas spanned four decades, made a career of breaking big stories about everything from organized crime and government malfeasance to political scandals.
Amid threats and signal cuts, India’s top independent TV anchor battles on – but for how long? “While We Watched”, a new documentary on veteran journalist Ravish Kumar, attests to the challenges of independent news reporting in India today. Death threats, signal cuts and financial pressures are par for the course at his TV news station, NDTV. Now a recent hostile takeover bid has renewed fears over media freedom.
Eight investigative journalists share their favorite reporting tools. In an informal roundup, GIJN asked eight investigative journalists in several countries to share some of the most helpful open-source resources they have encountered or used more deeply this year.
Mada Masr journalists charged with spreading false news. Editor-in-chief Lina Attalah, journalists Rana Mamdouh, Sara Seif Eddin and Beesan Kassab were released on bail on Wednesday evening after interrogation sessions at the Cairo Appeals Prosecution.
How Bristol became a local news oasis. Newspaper closures and cutbacks have led to large parts of the UK becoming deserts for local news. Bristol, on the other hand, has become something of an oasis.
Doxxed, threatened, and arrested: Russia’s war on Wikipedia editors. Russia’s ongoing campaign against Wikipedia threatens volunteer editors.
Photo credit: Novaya Gazeta newspaper, Vosstania Square, St. Petersburg, CC BY-SA 4.0