The detention of Ugandan journalist Solomon Serwanjja and his BBC colleagues by police has stoked debate about the role and ethics of investigative journalism. Serwanjja and journalists from the BBC were working on an exposé about government drugs that are stolen and sold in the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan and in private health […]
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This statement was released by the Committee to Protect Journalists. The full report on journalists killed in 2018 is available here. New York, December 19, 2018–At least 53 journalists were killed on the job this year, 34 of whom were targeted for murder in reprisal for their work, the Committee to Protect Journalists found in […]
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Peter Greste, The University of Queensland Time Magazine has just announced its “Person of the Year” for 2018, and for once, it isn’t one person. This time it is four people and a newspaper. Collectively calling them “The Guardians”, Time has awarded the accolade to the murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Filipino journalist Maria Ressa […]
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This article was first published by ARTICLE 19. An annual metric, published by ARTICLE 19, shows that global freedom of expression has declined significantly over the last three years. The Expression Agenda (XpA) uses independently collected and verified data to give a comprehensive picture of the state of freedom of expression around the world. 24 countries showed […]
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Press release New York, October 29, 2018–A lack of justice in the murders of journalists creates an entrenched climate of censorship, the Committee to Protect Journalists found in its Global Impunity Index released today. The eleventh annual report highlights countries where journalists are murdered regularly and their killers go free. All 14 of the countries featured this […]
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This article was originally published on unesco.org. More than a thousand journalists were killed between 2006 and 2017, according to a UNESCO report published ahead of International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, 2 November. Last year, the percentage of journalists murdered in countries free of armed conflict (55%) exceeded that of journalists […]
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Chris Paterson, University of Leeds It took a while for obituaries to start appearing for murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi – and there is still some uncertainty over the manner of his death. Turkish authorities are so far declining to release either sound or video of the assassination – both of which they are alleged […]
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A NBS TV journalist has today been beaten by UPDF soldiers, nine days after the army apologised for a similar incident. Joshua Mujunga was covering a demonstration in Kamwokya, Kampala, from 8.30am before trouble began. His employer, NBS said: NBS journalist Joshua Mujunga, has faced the wrath of the UPDF this morning. The video journalist […]
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