The National Writers Union (NWU) has joined forces with the subscription-based online publication Defector to agree a set of shared principles for...

The charges against journalist Hopewell Chin’ono exposed the increasing harassment of media workers by the Zimbabwean government during the Covid-19...

Covid-19 infection rates have soared to 25% among inmates at Belmarsh prison where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is being held, putting his already...

(UPDATED 4 NOVEMBER) A Harare court banned prominent lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa from defending journalist Hopewell Chin’ono, ruling she was in contempt of...

Pakistani authorities suspended satellite transmission of television channel News24HD from October 19 after it allegedly aired an opposition party...

Google’s offer to pay to license news has been welcomed by journalists’ unions around the world as an important first step, but the pledge of just...

Lawyers for the US government wrangled for days to prevent Julian Assange's extradition proceedings hearing Khaled El-Masri’s evidence. When...

Police detained four journalists in eastern Turkey on 6 October and raided their homes and offices following their reporting on allegations of Turkish...

Pakistani journalist Abid Hussain Abidi, affiliated with local newspaper Jurm-o- Saza, was shot dead in Mandi Bahaudin in the Malikwal district on...

Una coalición de sindicatos mundiales, que representan a casi 21 millones de trabajadores y trabajadoras en todo el mundo, pone en marcha hoy una...

The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ/EFJ), respectively the world’s and Europe’s largest journalists’ organisations,...

“If you criminalise news gathering, you are criminalising journalism. It is a moral duty for journalists to protect sources. Many have gone to jail to...

Global tech giant Facebook is to ban users in Australia from sharing news on its platforms if a proposed regulatory code to make them pay for news...

After years of resisting demands to pay for news, Google said in a surprise announcement on 25 June it had reached  deals with a number of news...

The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the Pan–African Organisation of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has launched today a...

Friday 17 April marked one year since the adoption by the European Union (EU) of the Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market. World...