WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's supporters staged protests before his 51st birthday this weekend, with his wife Stella Assange among people who gathered outside the Home Office to call for his release.
More people are selectively avoiding important news stories such as the Covid pandemic, Russia's assault on Ukraine, and the cost-of-living crisis, according to a Reuters Institute survey.
Pulitzer Prizes, administered by Columbia University and considered the most prestigious in American journalism, recognise work in 15 journalism categories and seven arts categories.
Asia-Pacific was the deadliest region for journalist, with 20 killings, then came the Americas with 10, Africa with eight, Europe with six, according to the International Federation of Journalists.
On Wednesday, two journalists from a Kabul-based media outlet were picked up by the Taliban at a protests in Kabul and detained for hours at a police station where they endured beatings.
The photographer who remained unnamed for security reasons, scooped Visa d'Or for News –– the most prestigious award handed out at "Visa Pour L'Image" festival in Perpignan, southwestern France.
NSO Group’s surveillance software has been at the heart of Abu Dhabi and Riyadh’s digital crackdown on dissent at home and abroad.
Assange’s brother, Gabriel Shipton, says extradition of the Wikileaks founder to the US would be a death sentence for him and press freedom worldwide.
He helped raise a generation of journalists in the Middle East to provide local voices. Now the Egyptian government calls one of the country’s longest-serving journalists a terrorist.
Readers scoop up all one million copies of Apple Daily which claims it was forced to cease operations after police froze $2.3 million of its assets, searched its office and arrested five top editors and executives last week.
Several journalists have been injured, arrested or attacked in Jerusalem, while 21 media organisations were destroyed by Israeli airstrikes in Gaza.
French reporter Olivier Dubois says in a video he was kidnapped by Al Qaeda-linked group JNIM on April 8 while he was working in Mali’s northern city of Gao.
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