Global press freedom has hit a 13-year low, threatened by US President Donald Trump’s media bashing and restrictions pursued by both democratic and authoritarian governments, a watchdog said Friday. A survey by Freedom House, a US-based human rights organization, highlighted growing concerns over efforts by governments around the world to clamp down on media and … Read more
Press freedom has never been as threatened as it is now, in the “new post-truth era of fake news” after the election of US President Donald Trump, Reporters Without Borders warned Wednesday. Its annual World Press Freedom Index warned of the “highly toxic” media-bashing of Trump’s election campaign and Britain’s Brexit referendum. The situation is … Read more
Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales is launching a project aimed at reshaping the news media called WikiTribune — using the same principles as the popular online encyclopedia. “The news is broken and we can fix it,” WikiTribune says on its website, after Wales announced the plan late Monday focused on “evidence-based journalism.” WikiTribune aims to tackle … Read more
Wikipedia’s co-founder Jimmy Wales is planning a news service that combines the work of professional journalists and volunteers. His goal is for Wikitribune to offer “factual and neutral” articles that help combat the problem of “fake news”. The service is intended to be both ad-free and free-to-read, so will rely on supporters making regular donations. … Read more
The Government is planning to transform state-owned media organisations to financially independent and self-sustaining institutions. The phenomenon of some of these state media outfits being puppets of governing parties has for years dominated public discussions. The Minister for Information, Mustapha Hamid, says the current administration is committed to staying out of the affairs of the … Read more
Campaign reporting that exposed misleading claims by now US President Donald Trump about charitable giving and commentary about last year’s divisive US presidential campaign won Pulitzer Prizes on Monday. David Fahrenthold of The Washington Post won the national reporting award for what the board called “a model for transparent journalism” that cast doubt on Trump’s … Read more
More than half of the jobs at US newspapers have disappeared since 2001, with a large portion of the losses offset by employment gains at internet firms, government figures showed Monday. The data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showed US newspaper employment fell from 412,000 in January 2001 to 174,000 in September 2016. In … Read more
A global alliance of tech industry and academic organizations unveiled plans on Monday to work together to combat the spread of “fake news” and improve public understanding of journalism. The News Integrity Initiative will launch with $14 million from Facebook, the Ford Foundation, Mozilla and others, based at the City University of New York’s journalism … Read more
Panama has a new tourist attraction: the building hosting the offices of the Mossack Fonseca law firm at the heart of the Panama Papers scandal. That is why, workers there say, the sign announcing the firm has been taken down from where it used to be outside the dark-tinted edifice in Panama City’s modern banking … Read more
There has been growing concerns decrying the journalism standards in the country lately seeing the rate at which “mushroom” journalism institutions are sprouting in the cities. Veteran broadcaster, Mike Eghan Snr., recently added his voice to the call for improved journalism standards within the Ghanaian media landscape when he was interviewed on Eezy FM’s breakfast … Read more
The representatives of a number of international press organizations have come together in a meeting in İstanbul, and urged the Turkish government to release the jailed journalists. The Turkish Journalists’ Association (TGC), the International Press Institute (IPI), Article 19, Swedish PEN, the Reporters Without Borders (RSF), and the Association of European Journalists (AEJ), joined the … Read more
The investigative reporting alliance known for uncovering the massive Panama Papers scandal has become an independent entity, a move that may help it expand globally, the group said Monday. The Washington-based International Consortium of Investigative Journalists has been spun off the nonprofit Center for Public Integrity, according to statements from both organizations. The ICIJ gained … Read more
The Managing Director of Graphic Communications Group Limited (GCGL), Mr Kenneth Ashigbey, has urged staff of the company to come up with innovative ideas to ensure the success and growth of the company. He said the newspaper industry was under threat with the emergence of social media, which was affecting the fortunes of the company. … Read more
Parliament has suffered a major blow to its public image due largely to its recent appointments committee bribery allegations, a report by the Centre for Media Analysis (CMA), an independent media monitoring agency, said on Tuesday. The report, compiled through CMA’s strategic analysis of print media news contents, called on the leadership of the august … Read more
CNN and other news outlets were blocked Friday from an off-camera White House press briefing, raising alarm among media organizations and First Amendment watchdogs. The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Politico and BuzzFeed were also excluded from the meeting, which is known as a gaggle and is less formal than the televised Q-and-A … Read more
Parliament has suffered a major blow to its public image due largely to its recent appointments committee bribery allegations, a report by the Centre for Media Analysis (CMA), an independent media monitoring agency, said on Tuesday. The report, compiled through CMA’s strategic analysis of print media news contents, called on the leadership of the august … Read more
Journalists in conflict zones are facing unprecedented threats amid a rise in violent non-state actors, a decline in rule of law and increased reliance on freelancers, a media watchdog said Tuesday. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said in a 28-page report that more needs to be done to ensure the safety of reporters … Read more
The Movement for the Kingdom Image (MFKI) is calling on the National Media Commission (NMC) to revoke licenses of media owners who pay their staff below average to save the crippling image of journalism in the country. According to him, due to economic hardships coupled with poor incentives, journalists have resorted to survival over professionalism. … Read more
The Trump administration’s combative view of traditional news media as the “opposition party” and “fake news” is turning out to be the best hope in 2017 for newspapers struggling to attract more digital readers and advertisers. The New York Times (NYT. N), the Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal and Gannett Co GCNI.N are building … Read more
Professional journalists working in the media have been asked to kick out charlatans who go around town including events grounds parading themselves as journalists to extort money from people. “If you go to an event and you see non-journalists who are just there for “Soli”, I think you should kick them out. At the Press … Read more