A new report has warned media freedom in the EU is close to “breaking point” in many states amid rising authoritarianism across the continent.
Journalism is in crisis, again. The challenges to press freedom are enormous and multi-faceted and they are deepening -- in “free” and open societies as well as autocracies. And there are no simple solutions.
For individuals and entire media outlets the crisis is existential.
Journalism is in crisis - again.
The challenges to press freedom are enormous and multi-faceted.
Diaa Al-Kahlout, the veteran Gaza bureau chief for the Qatari-funded London-based newspaper
Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, had been
covering the
Israel-Gaza war for two months when he became part of the news.
It is only fitting, against the backdrop of World Press Freedom Day, to recount the horror being inflicted on journalists and reporters around the world, which is increasing day by day. To tell the story of the mounting death of journalists in Gaza, it is essential to put into perspective the plight of journalists around the world.
The seven- month-long war in Gaza is perhaps the only military conflict in contemporary history which has claimed the lives of over 100 journalists, including targeted killings.
The last time Bahram Sintash saw his journalist father was in 2017. Qurban Mamut, an influential Uyghur editor had come to the United States for a visit but upon his return to Xinjiang in northwest China, he disappeared.