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EFF on a collision course with dissident black women

Opinion Barbara Boswell - 10 Sep 2020

The party’s response to journalists and those who speak against them reveal a consistent pattern of misogyny

Australian journalists flee China fearing arrest

World Andrew Beatty - 8 Sep 2020

Their dramatic overnight exit came following days of secret wrangling that had seen both men holed up in Australia's diplomatic missions to escape the clutches of China's feared security police

Mozambican authorities must stop the attack on media freedom

Africa Deprose Muchena - 8 Sep 2020

When journalists stop telling the truth about what’s going on in their country, when they stop exposing wrongdoing and corruption allegations, everyone suffers

In Softie, politics takes a personal toll on Boniface Mwangi – and his family

Africa Simon Allison - 26 Aug 2020

Softie is an intimate portrait of how political activism complicates family life

‘Killing the chicken to scare the monkey’: what Jimmy Lai’s arrest means for Hong Kong’s independent media

Top Six Brendan Clift - 12 Aug 2020

Although self-censorship has long been a concern, Hong Kong has traditionally enjoyed a vibrant free press

Hope is locked away in Zimbabwe

Africa Ranga Mberi - 4 Aug 2020

Hopewell Chin’ono backed President Emmerson Mnangagwa when he succeeded Robert Mugabe. Now he’s in jail

After a 55-year struggle, a major victory for press freedom in Sierra Leone

Africa Abdul S Brima - 4 Aug 2020

A law used to harass and intimidate journalists has been repealed

On Hodan Nalayeh’s brave legacy, and what it means to be Somali

Africa Ifrah Udgoon - 26 Jul 2020

Hodan Nalayeh was a Somali journalist famous for telling uplifting, positive stories about her country. She was killed in a terrorist attack in Kismayo in July 2019. A year later, the writer Ifrah Udgoon remembers how Nalayeh’s life and work shaped her own

Book extract: Media critique is not a crime

Opinion Julie Reid - 9 Jul 2020

Journalists need to value criticism of their work to the same degree they value press freedom, argues Julie Reid in this extract from ‘Tell Our Story: Multiplying Voices in the News Media’

Journalists believe news and opinion are separate, but readers can’t tell the difference

Opinion Kevin M. Lerner - 23 Jun 2020

With many readers coming to news sites from social media links, they may not pay attention to the subtle clues that mark a story published by the opinion staff

The journalist who was shot in cold blood

Africa Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime - 18 Jun 2020

Ahmed Divela was one of Ghana’s most fearless investigative journalists. This edited excerpt about his killing is from Faces of Assassination

Remembering the cruelty of strongman Nkurunziza and his regime

Africa Aanu Adeoye - 10 Jun 2020

Burundi’s president was a cruel and tyrannical leader under whom no one was safe, not even schoolchildren

The quiet rise of spy states

Africa Murray Hunter - 5 Jun 2020

Few Southern African countries have laws protecting people’s privacy, a report reveals

A letter to Ciham Ali, in an Eritrean jail on her birthday

Africa Vanessa Tsehaye - 3 Apr 2020

Ciham Ali was born in the United States and moved to Eritrea with her family. When Ciham tried to leave, she was arrested at the border. After eight years, Human Rights Watch have called for her release

Shaun Johnson: Charm without the smarm

Analysis Irwin Manoim - 6 Mar 2020

The Weekly Mail hired him to get the training project off the ground; he did much, much more than that, writes Irwin Manoim

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