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Nigeria’s Elections: A Repressed Press at the ...
By Senami Kojah As the largest democracy in Africa and the most populous Black nation on Earth, all eyes are on Nigeria’s 2023 general elections, which can serve as a bellwether for regional politics. Journalists across the country are preparing themselves for heightened tensions at the polls due ... |
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‘Alternative Means’: How Civil Socie...
Most killers of journalists walk free. The statistics are staggering: worldwide, almost nine out of 10 cases of journalist killings are met with impunity. To mark the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists and the tenth anniversary of the UN Plan of Action on the Safety o... |
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Online Violence against Women: In Whose Hands Ar...
By Lourdes Walusala A couple of years ago, I lost my first child due to a pregnancy-related complication. This experience ignited my passion for advocating for maternal health, and so I started producing health programs on the radio. I also threw myself into blogging to reach wider audiences with in... |
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“Television and the Afghan Culture Wars:&#...
By Noah Arjomand In August 2021, the Taliban upended two decades of international media development efforts in Afghanistan. Both the press and the entertainment industry had been relative success stories amid an otherwise bleak landscape of a corrupt and ineffective donor-dependent state and persist... |
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Contracorriente: cómo un medio de comunicación...
Para la versión en inglés, consulte aquí. Las advertencias llegaron a través de intermediarios: amigos y conocidos. A Jennifer Ávila y su equipo de Contracorriente se les dijo que sus reportajes sobre los arreglos fuera del país de los políticos y las élites hondureñas, según lo revelado... |
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Contracorriente: How One Honduran News Outlet Su...
For the Spanish version, see here. The warnings came through intermediaries: friends and acquaintances. Jennifer Ávila and her team at Contracorriente were told that their reporting on the offshore dealings of Honduran politicians and elites, as revealed by the Pandora Papers, would get them in tro... |
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‘No Safe Haven’: Commercial Spyware...
By Samuel Woodhams New revelations about the global proliferation of commercial spyware and how it has been used to target journalists have recently emerged. In September, 2021 several news outlets reported that intelligence officials in Hungary and Rwanda successfully infected journalists’ phones... |
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The New Censorship: Why Protecting Journalists O...
By Gideon Sarpong The rise of social media platforms provides many opportunities to the more than half a billion internet users in Africa, including increased access to information and extended social networks. However, these platforms pose new challenges to protecting the safety of journalists. I... |
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Understanding and Building Resilience in Journal...
By Evgenia (Eka) Javakhishvili It has been over a year since I joined IREXs SAFE Initiative, a program that delivers integrated safety trainings for media professionals around the globe, as a psychosocial trainer. At almost every training a participant asks me to help them manage their “paranoia,... |
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Duterte adds even more volatility to an already ...
The Philippines has been one of the most dangerous places outside of a war zone to be a journalist – over the past decade, 41 journalists have been killed without the assailants being brought to justice, according the Committee to Protect Journalists. Since Rodrigo Duterte became president of th... |