Mina Akbari is again working as a journalist after fleeing Taliban rule in Afghanistan. She is reporting for diaspora media from her new home in Pakistan.
The city of Annapolis in Maryland still honors the people who killed at the Capital Gazette newspaper five years after the single worst attack on U.S. media in history.VOA’s Cristina Caicedo Smit has this report.
Gunmen shot dead a Philippine radio broadcaster on Wednesday, police said, the latest killing of a journalist in one of the world’s most dangerous countries for reporters.
After nearly six months of unrest in Iran, the regime started imprisoning opposition voices on a large scale and threatening international media.But according to some experts, these tactics no longer have the power to arouse fear.
In April, Bilan Media, an all-female media outlet in Somalia, celebrated its first anniversary, bucking societal expectations about what a woman’s role should be.
International rights groups are condemning a crackdown on independent media that has opposed the incumbent president’s control of the mainstream media as Turkey gets closer to its hotly contested presidential elections in May.
The threats to the media were brought to light by the killing of Cameroonian journalist Martinez Zogo earlier this year.
After France 24 aired an excerpt of an interview with the head of a regional al-Qaida affiliate, Burkina Faso’s military government suspended the international broadcaster.
Pressure escalated against Bangladesh’s leading daily as it was hit with a second Digital Security Act case on Thursday, this time against the editor, over a recent report that a minister said “undermined” the country’s independence.
Journalists in Hong Kong say they are being followed by unidentified law enforcement personnel, prompting calls for a police investigation from their union amid deteriorating press freedom in the city.
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