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Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi, President Win Myint and other government leaders were detained on February 1 by the country’s military, who have…

Ahmad Omar Saeed Sheikh, who was previously convicted in the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel Pearl, is set to walk free after…

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Several journalists from Indian media group iTV were threatened, heckled and physically assaulted by unidentified assailants during a Republic Day…

Neha Dixit, a freelance journalist known for her investigative reporting, revealed on January 27 that she and her partner, filmmaker Nakul Singh…

China has tightened control over media workers with a new rule that bans journalists from self-publishing news via social media accounts. The Chinese…

Tech giants Google and Facebook have threatened to stop offering their services in Australia if a new code, that will force them to pay a fair share…

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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Every week the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is compiling a list of the top news articles from across the world in which it is…

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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Every week the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is compiling a list of the top news articles from across the world in which it is…