NewsClick case in India: RSF and Guernica 37 Chambers call on the European Union to sanction Delhi police officers
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and Guernica 37 Chambers call on the European Union to sanction four high-ranking officers of the Delhi police, responsible - directly or indirectly - for exactions against dozens of journalists working or having collaborated with the independent media NewsClick.
#Palestine / CPJ calls on United Nations to investigate Israel’s arbitrary detention of Palestinian journalists
[…] “The alarming use of administrative detention by Israeli authorities amid the Israel-Gaza war represents the silencing of dissenting voices, most notably journalists,” said #CPJ Director of Advocacy and Communications Gypsy Guillén Kaiser. “The incidence of administrative detention is a concerning bellwether for Israel’s efforts to restrict the public’s right to know what is happening in Gaza.”
'Violated Principles of Natural Justice': Caravan Files Petition Against Govt Order On Army Story
In its petition, The Caravan has underlined that the Ministry of Information & Broadcasting's order asking the magazine to take down its article on allegations of torture and murder against the Indian Army also violated the fundamental right to free speech and expression and the freedom of the press.
Set Free a Day Ago, J&K Journalist Aasif Sultan Arrested Again Hours After Returning Home
'It is an old case. Since he had got clearance from the authorities, we assumed that he would not be arrested in this particular case,' his lawyer has said.
#PressFreedom / News outlets express solidarity with journalists in Gaza
[…] The leaders of more than 30 news organizations from across the world, including the Associated Press, Agence France-Presse, and Reuters, have joined an open letter affirming their solidarity with journalists reporting in Gaza.
[…] A total of at least 94 journalists have been killed in the Israel-Gaza war; the majority of them (89) were Palestinians killed by the Israeli military.
Aluf Benn, Editor in Chief, #Haaretz, is the only Israeli signed.
#India#Media#News#Journalism#PressFreedom: "“Journalism is dead,” said Ravish Kumar, a popular anchor who resigned from NDTV ahead of Adani’s takeover. These days, he said in an interview with Bloomberg News, “the only use of newspapers and channels is to create propaganda for Narendra Modi.”
On the face of it, India still has a vibrant media. With more than 20,000 newspapers and 300 TV channels, the industry reflects the vast diversity of a democracy with 1.4 billion people. But to many journalists, leadership changes at NDTV and diluted coverage across India illustrate how Prime Minister Modi has effectively brought to heel a once-riotous media. Newsrooms are being reshaped, they say, by India’s richest press barons, many of whom are close to the ruling party and depend on millions of advertising dollars from the government.
Adani, one of Asia’s richest tycoons and a longtime friend of Modi, is a high-profile case study. After his conglomerate acquired NDTV, the channel commissioned an adulatory nine-part documentary about Modi and now lands exclusive interviews with senior officials in the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. Just a few years ago, sit-downs with top cabinet members were rare and managers fretted about federal agencies raiding NDTV’s offices."
Billionaire Press Barons Are Squeezing Media Freedom in India
Tycoons close to Prime Minister Narendra Modi are taking over news outlets. Journalists say diluted coverage illustrates the taming of India’s once-riotous media.
#Cybersecurity#Journalism#PressFreedom: "Inspired by these findings, we’ve done some exploratory qualitative research to see how these values of “protection” and “freedom” resonated with journalists when infused into a short message about basic digital security practices. We received survey responses from 28 journalists (mostly operating in a Western context).
As an early exploration of these questions, our survey was not intended to be representative of all journalists — instead, it helped us to begin identifying meaningful differences in how reporters interpret and describe values-based framings of security. Respondents by and large told us that the “protection” message was the way to go — but also emphasized that they wanted that message to be bundled with source protection rather than just protection of themselves.
Looking closer at the responses, we also heard that respondents don’t want one-size-fits-all digital security messaging; they want it to be centered around their experiences working as journalists. Additionally, several survey participants conveyed that they see security as a burden or inconvenience, rather than something that is a crucial component of their jobs."
Speaking with reporters in CA on Thurs, Biden said about Donald Trump to Katie Couricm
“Two of your former colleagues not at the same network personally told me if he wins, they will have to leave the country because he’s threatened to put them in jail,” Biden said.
#Journalism#Media#News#PressFreedom#FreeSpeech#Hacking#Censorship#Surveillance: "Two months after we met in Bournemouth, the British government denied Brown’s asylum application. His lawyer, Filip Kostanecki, offered to launch an appeal, pointing to some holes in the Home Office’s handling of the case. In an email to Brown, he included an important note in the U.K.’s decision validating the suspicion that had motivated this whole effort: “The Home Office accept that you are of interest to the FBI and Department of Justice in the United States of America.”
I had expected Brown to be deflated about the prospect of deportation, but he seemed practically animated, riffing on the inscrutability of the broken system he was trying to conquer. “The incompetence and slapdashery of the English state apparatus is absolutely confounding,” he said in a text.
He asked me not to tell Mann about the asylum setback. She was in London dealing with some internal drama at Freedom, her magazine, and he wanted to wait to tell her when she returned home. Brown was trying not to think too much about the situation, even as he was sending me long, discursive texts about the state of his case. “Mostly spent weekend watching Killers of Flower Moon three times,” he wrote. “I try to defer major decisions as long as possible these days.”
It might be a tempest in a teacup to some over a really inconsequential photo published by a student-run news outlet but I am definitely siding with TomasinoWeb and its advisor that the censorship and strong-arming by the university administration is intolerable.
“The first is the pressure applied to your company,” he said, referring to Tel Aviv’s efforts to block stories that could hurt their image from being published.
“The second is the fear of being assigned somewhere else when you step on Israeli toes,” he added.
46 membri dell'Europarlamento presentano oggi un'ultima richiesta al ministro britannico James Cleverly per proteggere Julian #Assange dall'imminente estradizione negli USA
Il nostro messaggio: l’Europa osserva da vicino UK e il suo rispetto dei diritti umani e della Convenzione sui diritti umani. È in gioco il rapporto di UK con l’UE.
Als Mitinitiator danke ich Dietmar Köster (SPD), @SLagodinsky (Grüne), @MartinSonneborn (PARTEI) und Manuela Ripa (ÖDP) für die Unterstützung. Möge die Bundesregierung erwachen!
🇬🇧46 Members of the European Parliament today make a final request to UK Home Secretary James Cleverly to protect Julian #Assange from looming extradition to the US.
Our message: Europe is watching the UK and its respect for human rights and the Human Rights Convention closely. Britain's relationship with the EU is at stake.
Read: The Caravan's Article on Army Torture the Union Government Wants Taken Down
"For the affected families, the bundles of cash they received—Rs 10 lakh for the dead and lesser for the injured—were expected to replace their loved ones."
Union Govt Uses IT Act to Attack Press Freedom, Asks Caravan to Take Down Report
The magazine was told that if it fails to take down an article on the Poonch killings from its website within 24 hours, the entire website would be taken down. Caravan has said it will be challenging the order.