At BuzzFeed, it was the second wave of job cuts in 14 months
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The Committee to Protect Journalists said 34 of the 53 journalists killed on duty this year around the world were ‘singled out for murder’
Lawyers for two Myanmar Reuters journalists have filed an appeal against their seven-year jail sentence
What’s a day in a donor-funded journalism centre like? Mia Malan reveals all in her latest article for the journal of African Journalism Studies.
Our readers write in about M&G’s bias, and constitutional reform
Supporting Saudi Arabia’s lukewarm reforms sends a signal of consent to a murderous regime
We dare not speak its name
Beijing has demanded an apology after a Chinese state TV journalist was removed from a fringe event at the ruling Conservative party’s conference
"Who is speaking to this overwhelming sense that you are stranded in this tender yet violent place and you don’t know why or what it’s for?"
Journalists must pay $2500 per trip to report from Mozambique
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Two Reuters reporters accused of breaking Myanmar’s draconian secrecy law during reporting of a Rohingya massacre must face trial, a judge said Monday
’I was working on a story on male corrective rape and, during that time, I had this recurring dream.’
Right2Know report shows state surveillance of journalists is on the increase as corruption in government and private sector is uncovered
The American author and journalist was known for his association with New Journalism, a style of news writing developed in the 1960s and 1970s
Both the media and civil society need to rethink the way they understand their roles when it comes to social accountability
Investigative journalists and civil society played a crucial role in bringing a country in the clutches of patronage networks back from the brink.
‘What really stood out for me was that, in West Africa — and I suppose around the continent generally — when people eat, everyone is invited’
As quickly as populist alliances form so do they unravel, according to Ernesto Laclau’s political philosophy theory
It’s not enough to report dispassionately on sexual predation. We have to lobby where the law fails
‘Khumalo knew the legislature, and the people in it, like the back of his hand, finessing documents and politicians with ease and grace’
A new anti-terror law is being used to silence any critical media that brings attention to the poor governance of President Biya’s and his government
Meet the Zimbabwean journalist who is concocting fake news to pay for real news
What if we thought of suicide as the outcome of a terminal illness instead of the outcome of an action?
Those exposed of wrongdoing by vigilant reporters are exploiting the distrust and doubt that misinformation engenders.
Retrenchments, the threat of a media tribunal, a new Bill and mergers bode ill for newsrooms.
Citizens need to know how to source reliable information to advance their freedoms.
If the media isn’t paying for stories, lobbyists are – and they decide what the public should know.
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