Political cartoonist Sergei Tunin (Russia) takes a look at the action taken by three Russian television providers of pulling the plug on Dozhd (TV Rain), a TV station known for covering the country’s massive anti-government protests. The channel’s chief said the move amounts to censorship.
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Since the coup in Honduras of 2009, at least 32 Honduran journalists have been killed and many more continue to work in a climate of fear and self-censorship. A new PEN International report documents the intertwining roles that allow the violence to continue with near complete impunity.
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In today’s cartoon, political cartoonist Vladimir Kazanevsky (Ukraine) takes a look at Ukraine’s controversial Law 3879, a law that, according to Reporters Without Borders, “drastically restricts freedom of information and other fundamental freedoms guaranteed by Ukraine’s constitution.”
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In today’s cartoon Ben Jennings (United Kingdom) comments on the harsh treatment whistleblowers receive at the hands of governments, particularly in the US and UK.
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Photographer Molhem Barakat is one of the latest of dozens of journalists, reporters, photographers and videographers killed in 2013 while trying to bring the news of the Syria conflict to the world’s attention. Here’s a list by Reporters Without Borders and the Committee to Protect Journalists.
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InformaCam, open source, application, citizen media, press freedom, internet freedom, social media, journalism, witness, guardian project, Knight Foundation, Nathan Freitas, Harlo Homes, Matisse Bustos Hawkes, Yvette Alberdingk Thijm, Google Hangout
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Repression of the press is a puzzle, and the pieces can take many forms: outright censorship by the state is one form, but the latest arrest of four Al Jazeera journalists in Egypt might be considered another. Cartoon by Ángel Ramiro Zapata Mora (Colombia).
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“These past few years I’ve been driven into exile, hunted down and attacked from all sides.” The veteran Chinese journalist and former Southern Weekly commentator Xiao Shu, an important figure in the New Citizens Movement, speaks out on being silenced from China’s internet.
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We look back at the most-read columns of 2013, featuring contributions from Tarik Günersel (Turkey), Bina Shah (Pakistan), Khet Mar (Burma), Israel Centeno (Venezuela), Hamdy el-Gazzar (Egypt), Tienchi Martin-Liao (China), Horacio Castellanos Moya (El Salvador), and Yaghoub Yadali (Iran).
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Based on a survey of Iranian journalists living and working outside Iran, this report offers insights regarding the transnational dimensions of Iranian journalism, as well as how Iranian journalists working outside Iran view their roles within the broader Iranian media ecosystem.
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