The IAPA denounces the ban against the few unofficial journalists in Cuba

The IAPA denounces the ban against the few unofficial journalists in Cuba

miami/The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) denounced this Friday the “continuous surveillance”, “harassment” and the “permanent threat” of arbitrary arrests and prison sentences for the few journalists from the unofficial media still in Cuba. In its mid-year report on press freedom in the Americas, the IAPA condemned the prison sentences and restrictions imposed on journalists … Read more

SIF attracts experts to assess the compliance of the “Re:Baltica” project

SIF attracts experts to assess the compliance of the “Re:Baltica” project

“Unlike the media, which can freely choose when to publish some information, we as a state institution have much less flexibility, especially if the reporting date is included in the contract. At the moment, the process of evaluating the final reports of the projects is taking its usual course,” he emphasizes SIF. SIF also notes … Read more

Evan Gerskovich, Putin’s prisoner for simply doing his job – 2024-04-01 10:43:13

Evan Gerskovich, Putin’s prisoner for simply doing his job
 – 2024-04-01 10:43:13

“Discover yourself. Decide what you want to do and do it,” Mikhail Gershkovitch always advised his children. Danielle took up swimming and Evan took up football. Years later the little blue-eyed boy would meet his mother’s watery eyes, one love after another stubbornly ignoring the intervening glass cage that kept them from getting lost in … Read more

One of the goals in the media guidelines is a more Latvian media environment

One of the goals in the media guidelines is a more Latvian media environment

She reminded that the media guidelines are a policy planning document, which will be accompanied by an action plan, which could be submitted for public consultation in the summer. She explained that the media guidelines define the goals to be achieved, as well as the basic principles of what the media environment should be. Logina … Read more

St. Louis TV Station KMOV Faces Backlash After Anchor Cory Stark Uses Outdated Racial Term

St. Louis TV Station KMOV Faces Backlash After Anchor Cory Stark Uses Outdated Racial Term

St. Louis TV Station Under Fire After Anchor Uses Outdated Racial Term St. Louis TV Station Under Fire After Anchor Uses Outdated Racial Term By David Propper Published March 6, 2024, 12:08 a.m. ET Television station KMOV is receiving backlash after one of its anchors referred to minority homeowners using an “outdated, offensive, and racist” … Read more

Abuses and Misconduct in Hilversum: Vulnerabilities in Broadcasting Employees and First Steps Towards Transparency

Abuses and Misconduct in Hilversum: Vulnerabilities in Broadcasting Employees and First Steps Towards Transparency

Hardly any permanent contracts, failing leadership and no participation: that is the reality in Hilversum. The result? Major abuses and few people speaking out about them. What makes broadcasting employees so vulnerable as targets or witnesses of misconduct? Outbursts of anger, arguments, disparaging remarks, exclusion, gossip, sexist comments or pinching of colleagues’ buttocks, breasts and … Read more

Journalists’ Union Condemns Attacks on Media at FC Porto Event: Third Incident in Two Weeks

Journalists’ Union Condemns Attacks on Media at FC Porto Event: Third Incident in Two Weeks

The Journalists’ Union (SJ) repudiated this Tuesday the attacks on journalists, with lighters, that occurred during the presentation of Pinto da Costa’s re-candidacy for the presidency of FC Porto, late Sunday afternoon, at the Coliseu. This is the “third case of intimidation, nationally, in two weeks”, which is why the SJ called for those responsible … Read more

Santiago Pavlovic: The Chilean Journalist Who Defied Dictatorship and Reports for Five Decades

Santiago Pavlovic: The Chilean Journalist Who Defied Dictatorship and Reports for Five Decades

Santiago Pavlovic Urionabarrenechea (Sewell, Chile, 77 years old), journalist from the University of Chile, is one of the few, if not the only Chilean reporter, who continues working in the field after more than five decades. He was already on National Television (TVN), the public channel, when the socialist president and leader of the Popular … Read more

International Journalists’ Federation Reports 120 Journalists Killed in 2023, Majority in Gaza Strip

International Journalists’ Federation Reports 120 Journalists Killed in 2023, Majority in Gaza Strip

Dec 31, 2023 at 6:00 PM Update: an hour ago In 2023, 120 journalists have died on the job, reports the international journalists’ federation IFJ. More than two-thirds of them were killed in the Gaza Strip. In Europe, 3 journalists were killed: 2 in the war in Ukraine and 1 in Albania. On December 8, … Read more

The Cuban regime keeps communications cut off to activists and journalists

The Cuban regime keeps communications cut off to activists and journalists

It will be a week since several activists and independent journalists on the Island have suffered connection problems. Telecommunications outages began, in most cases, on the eve of December 10, International Human Rights Day, and continue this Friday. The Lady in White Berta Soler and her husband, former Black Spring prisoner Ángel Moya, are among … Read more