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Two Filipino journalists were falsely labelled by the country’s military as being members of the Philippines terrorist group the New People’s Army…

The disruption of the global economy due to COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 exacerbated the commercial challenges already facing the media industry around…

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A Gujarat court has issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against senior Indian journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta following the filing of a defamation…

The recent approval of a number of Covid-19 vaccines all over the world has meant thousands of journalists are having to report on vaccines and…

Five men have been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of journalist Humayun Kabir Balu, sixteen years after he was killed in a targeted…

A mob of nearly a dozen people led by the imam of a local mosque attacked Zohra Radio in north eastern Kunduz province on January 15 damaging the…

Malaysia’s national journalism union has requested cooperation from Malaysia’s government as well as media and non-media workers in addressing…

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Former Chinese journalist and renowned critic of internet censorship Zhang Jialong was sentenced to 18 months in prison on January 8 for his remarks…

The Hong Kong police served four media organisations with court warrants requiring the handing in of internal documents related to July's primary…

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As Judge Vanessa Baraitser started to deliver her ruling in the Old Bailey’s number two court yesterday, nothing felt right.

Bismillah Adil Aimaq, an Afghan journalist and human rights activist was killed by unidentified gunmen in Dara-e-Taimoor village in Ghor province of…

Chinese citizen journalist Zhang Zhan, who covered the coronavirus outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan earlier this year, was convicted of “picking…

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