70% of environment journalists report attacks, threats, pressure: UN
10 months, 4 weeks ago

70% of environment journalists report attacks, threats, pressure: UN

Hindustan Times  

Seventy percent of environmental journalists from 129 countries, polled in March, reported experiencing attacks, threats or pressure related to their job, UNESCO said Thursday. "Without reliable scientific information about the ongoing environmental crisis, we can never hope to overcome it," UNESCO director general Audrey Azoulay said in a statement. UNESCO said at least 749 journalists and news media outlets reporting on environmental issues were "targeted with murder, physical violence, detention and arrest, online harassment or legal attacks" between 2009 and 2023. At a press freedom conference in Chile this week, UNESCO will announce the launch of a grants program to provide legal and technical support to over 500 environmental journalists facing persecution, said the statement.

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124 killed, most by Israel, in deadliest year for reporters: Committee to Protect Journalists
1 month, 3 weeks ago

124 killed, most by Israel, in deadliest year for reporters: Committee to Protect Journalists

New Indian Express  

Last year was the deadliest for journalists in recent history, with at least 124 reporters killed -- and Israel responsible for nearly 70 percent of that total, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported Wednesday. It was the deadliest year for reporters and media workers since CPJ began keeping records more than three decades ago, with journalists murdered across 18 different …

99 journalists killed in 2023, 72 in Gaza war: report
1 year, 1 month ago

99 journalists killed in 2023, 72 in Gaza war: report

The Hindu  

Seventy-two of the 99 journalists killed in 2023 were killed in the Israel-Hamas war, making the last 12 months the deadliest for the media in almost a decade, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on February 15. "In December 2023, CPJ reported that more journalists were killed in the first three months of the Israel-Gaza war than have ever been …

Journalists' rights group counts 94 media workers killed worldwide, most at an alarming rate in Gaza
1 year, 3 months ago

Journalists' rights group counts 94 media workers killed worldwide, most at an alarming rate in Gaza

The Hindu  

A leading organisation representing journalists worldwide expressed deep concern Friday at the number of media professionals killed around the globe doing their jobs in 2023, with Israel's war with Hamas claiming more journalists than any conflict in over 30 years. In its annual count of media worker deaths, the International Federation of Journalists said 94 journalists had been killed so …

World Press Freedom Day: Stop targeting media, says UN chief to nations
1 year, 10 months ago

World Press Freedom Day: Stop targeting media, says UN chief to nations

Live Mint  

On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, the United Nations chief said that the media is under attack in every corner of the world and warned countries to stop the targeting of truth and those who report it. “Truth is threatened by disinformation and hate speech seeking to blur the lines between fact and fiction, between science and conspiracy,” …

We must do more to protect journalists globally
1 year, 10 months ago

We must do more to protect journalists globally

Al Jazeera  

In every corner of the world, journalists are intimidated and locked up at distressing rates and far too many are killed just for doing their jobs. On this World Press Freedom Day, there is much to be concerned about given the threats that journalists are facing daily. In a survey of some 700 women journalists conducted by the nonprofit Washington-based …

Journalist deaths jumped 50 percent in 2022, CPJ says
2 years, 2 months ago

Journalist deaths jumped 50 percent in 2022, CPJ says

Al Jazeera  

At least 67 journalists were killed in 2022, with the toll driven by attacks in Ukraine, Mexico, and Haiti, the Committee to Protect Journalists says. Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing Last year’s killings also included journalists in the occupied Palestinian territories, with one particular killing shedding light on Israeli “impunity”, CPJ said. The CPJ said it had confirmed that 41 of …

Climate of violence: 50% rise in killings of journalists globally, 86 murdered in 2022, says UNESCO
2 years, 2 months ago

Climate of violence: 50% rise in killings of journalists globally, 86 murdered in 2022, says UNESCO

Firstpost  

86 journalists were killed across the world in 2022, a 50% rise in comparison to the previous year, a UNESCO report said. “After several years of consecutive declines, the steep rise in the number of journalists killed in 2022 is alarming. The number of journalists killed in conflict zones rose to 23 in 2022, compared with 20 the previous year, …

Online violence is silencing women journalists
3 years, 10 months ago

Online violence is silencing women journalists

Al Jazeera  

UNESCO has just announced the Philippine investigative journalist and media executive, Maria Ressa, as the winner of the Guillermo Cano Prize for Press Freedom, which honours champions of media freedom, particularly those who have faced danger in order to do this. Back in 2014, 23 percent of the women journalists who responded to a UNESCO survey said they had been …

Female journalists facing growing online attacks: UNESCO
3 years, 11 months ago

Female journalists facing growing online attacks: UNESCO

Al Jazeera  

Online violence against female journalists has increased “significantly” as a large majority experienced harassment, threats and abuse while doing their jobs, according to UNESCO’s latest findings. “Online attacks on women journalists appear to be increasing significantly, as this study demonstrates, particularly in the context of the ‘shadow pandemic’ of violence against women during COVID-19,” the report stated. “This includes physical …

A journalist killed every four days this past decade: UNESCO
4 years, 5 months ago

A journalist killed every four days this past decade: UNESCO

Al Jazeera  

Latin America and the Caribbean recorded 40 percent of of the total killings registered worldwide in 2019, UNESCO says. Fifty-seven journalists and media workers were killed across the world last year, the United Nations says in a new report to mark the International Day to End of Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. In the first nine months of this year, …

Police hit 'troubling new threshold' for violence against journalists, new UN report finds
4 years, 6 months ago

Police hit 'troubling new threshold' for violence against journalists, new UN report finds

The Independent  

The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Reports of law enforcement’s …

Attacks on journalists during protests risen sharply: UNESCO
4 years, 6 months ago

Attacks on journalists during protests risen sharply: UNESCO

Al Jazeera  

Journalists attacked, arrested or killed in 21 protests between January and June of this year, UNESCO said. The number of incidents of violence against journalists covering protests across the world has risen sharply, with police and security forces the main culprits, the United Nations cultural agency has said. One of the journalists killed in 2018 was Yaser Murtaja, a photographer …

Killings and attacks against journalists on the rise
5 years, 5 months ago

Killings and attacks against journalists on the rise

Al Jazeera  

On Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, UN draws attention to killings of media workers in own countries. UNESCO Director-General Audrey Azoulay said by putting the focus on local journalists, the aim is to challenge “the perception that murders only happen far from the public eye, primarily targeting foreign war correspondents” and shine the spotlight on reporters “working …

Danger to journalists is growing worldwide, press freedom group says
6 years, 3 months ago

Danger to journalists is growing worldwide, press freedom group says

LA Times  

Jamal Khashoggi was one among many. Attacks against journalists — in the form of deaths, imprisonment or disappearances — have “risen in all categories,” said the group, which also goes by its French acronym RSF. “Violence against journalists has reached unprecedented levels this year, and the situation is now critical,” said RSF’s secretary-general, Christophe Deloire. The group cited the lengths …

World Press Freedom Day: 54 attacks on journalists in 16 months, says report
7 years, 10 months ago

World Press Freedom Day: 54 attacks on journalists in 16 months, says report

Hindustan Times  

In the past 16 months, 54 attacks on journalists were reported in the media, says a compilation on press freedom by a media watchdog, The Hoot; indicating the dangers to investigative journalism. Released on Tuesday, a day ahead of the World Press Freedom Day on May 3, the report says the actual number is probably much more, since the minister …

Where are journalists under attack?
7 years, 11 months ago

Where are journalists under attack?

Al Jazeera  

From Africa and Asia to Latin America and Europe, reporters are being killed with impunity simply for doing their jobs. On January 12, 2016, Saif Talal, a correspondent for the independent Iraqi television channel Al Sharqiya, was returning to Baquba after a reporting trip when gunman stopped the car he was travelling in. Over the year, according to figures gathered …

‘69 journalists died on the job in 2015’
9 years, 3 months ago

‘69 journalists died on the job in 2015’

The Hindu  

Sixty nine journalists were killed around the world on the job in 2015. “These journalists are the most vulnerable,” Joel Simon, the committee’s executive director said of reporters and broadcasters working in Syria and other areas inundated with Islamic extremists. “This is, clearly based on the data, an incredible risk for journalists.” Those killed by Islamic extremist groups this year …

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