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Belal Jadallah, one of the most beloved and respected journalists in Gaza, was killed yesterday by Israeli shelling. Known locally as “the godfather of Palestinian journalists,” Jadallah was …
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At least 12 journalists in the United States were arrested or faced dubious charges in 2023, among them two journalists in Alabama who were charged with felonies for “publishing” and a reporter in Illinois who was cited for asking city employees “too many questions.” The criminalization of routine journalism this year...
An award-winning reporter from Hong Kong has gone missing following a business trip to China in late October, people close to the matter have told Kyodo News....
'Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi proposes a government resolution to halt any state advertising, subscriptions or other commercial connection with the Haaretz daily newspaper, due to what he describes is the left-wing publication’s “defeatist and false propaganda” against the State of Israel during wartime.'
Samir Sassi joins growing number of journalists imprisoned and prosecuted in country
Journalists have been targeted for harassment, and some women are only allowed to speak to the press if they have a male chaperone.
Talking about climate change can be a tough job, especially in places where audiences may be less likely to accept the science. Strong resistance has pushed some meteorologists out of the field.
Sports Illustrated was publishing articles under seemingly fake bylines. We asked their owner about it — and they deleted everything.
Russian independent news media is still functioning from Riga, Latvia. The exile presents challenges to newsgathering and press freedom.
Two people with knowledge of the situation told Semafor that staffers who signed the letter criticizing Israel's military campaign in Gaza have been told that they will not be allowed to cover the conflict in any way for at least three months.
The persistent lack of justice for murdered reporters is a major threat to press freedom. Ten years after the United Nations declared an international day to end impunity for crimes against journalists – and more than 30 years after CPJ began documenting these killings – almost 80% of their killings remain unsolved.
An investigation into academic research leads to the resignation of Stanford University's president.
The past year has been another troubling one for the Russian free press.
It’s a sharp reversal from the last two years, when layoffs fell and some news outlets even expanded.
Several major publishers have been in talks to license content to the creator of ChatGPT, but agreement on the price and terms has been elusive.
In the end, though, the crux of this lawsuit is the same as all the others. It’s a false belief that reading something (whether by human or machine) somehow implicates copyright. This is false. If the courts (or the legislature) decide otherwise, it would upset pretty much all of the history of copyright and create some...
The New York Times has sued OpenAI and Microsoft for copyright infringement, alleging that the companies’ artificial intelligence technology illegally copied millions of Times articles to train ChatGPT and other services to provide people with information – technology that now competes with the Times.
The Associated Press (AP) News Guild announced Sunday it has struck a deal with management on a three-year contract after 19 months of negotiations that culminated in a final end-of-year push....
As Narendra Modi's government clamps down on the free press, top journalists are going solo to report unbiased news.
Restricting the information that chatbots can access may be the quickest way to build useful AI-powered tools for journalism.
Looking back at Apple Daily, the newspaper that wasn't afraid to raise its voice against the Chinese government. The BBC published this after Apple Daily shut down in 2021.
Gessen, a queer Jew, is being punished by the German political machine for being too open about the nature of global authoritarianism....
