Trump’s aid cuts will lead to a surge of propaganda, say press freedom groups
Loss of USAid funds will sow ‘chaos and confusion’ and force independent media outlets to shut down, says RSF Donald Trump’s foreign aid freeze will...
Category : Newspapers & magazines
Canadian media companies sue OpenAI in case potentially worth billions
Litigants say AI company used their articles to train its popular ChatGPT software without authorization Canada’s major news organizations have sued tech firm OpenAI for...
Philippines court voids order to shut down independent news site Rappler
Outlet, which was hit with order during Rodrigo Duterte administration, hails ruling after ‘eight years of harassment’ A court in the Philippines has voided a...
Somalia arrests another journalist as press clampdown intensifies
Detention of reporters for covering sensitive news is having a ‘chilling’ effect on free media in Somalia, say rights groups The arrest of a journalist...
Malawian journalist arrested over article accusing businessman of corruption
Rights groups condemn arrest of Macmillan Mhone, who was charged with ‘publication of news likely to cause fear and alarm’ Human rights watchdogs have condemned...
French journalist arrested in Ethiopia accused of ‘conspiracy to create chaos’
Antoine Galindo is accused of conspiring with rebels, but press freedom groups say no evidence has been found and call for his immediate release Ethiopian...
Kidnappers free two of three journalists taken in Mexico, group says
Silvia Arce and Alberto Sánchez, who were kidnapped on Wednesday, freed unharmed Two of three journalists recently kidnapped in southern Mexico have been freed unharmed,...
Leading critic of Egyptian state jailed for six months
Free speech advocate Hisham Kassem sentenced for defaming former minister Kamal Abu Eita A court in Cairo has sentenced a former newspaper publisher, free speech...
Life imitates art as El Salvador pressures book fair to bar dissenting writer
Barbers on Strike, author Michelle Recinos’s collection of short stories, has apparently upset strongman president Nayib Bukele First the soldiers came for those with mohawks....
Outrage in Guatemala as crusading journalist given six-year prison term
José Rubén Zamora, 66, convicted and sentenced on money-laundering charges press freedom groups say were trumped up A veteran journalist and founder of one of...
