Press Freedom
CPJ Updates
- New Guatemalan president must work hard to improve press freedom
- Governments around the world crack down on journalists covering COVID-19
- Philippines COVID-19 state of emergency includes prison time for spreading ‘false news’
- Trust deficit: About This Report
- Trust deficit: Guatemala's new president must overcome skepticism to improve press freedom
- Trust deficit: 'The goal was to silence me'
- Journalist Adnan Rashidi tortured, robbed in Iraqi Kurdistan
- Iraqi security forces seize journalist’s belongings for allegedly violating COVID-19 curfew
- Egypt expels Guardian reporter Ruth Michaelson over COVID-19 coverage
Reporter Without Borders
- Journalist threatened for exposing flaws in handling of coronavirus crisis
- Indian newspaper accused of “fake news” about lockdown’s impact on poor
- Coronavirus: RSF concerned for freedom of the press as Japan declares state of emergency
- Philippine journalist forced to apologize for criticizing coronavirus “inaction”
- Coronavirus threat to journalists in overcrowded Saudi prisons
- Covid-19 in Africa: RSF joins a coalition of civil society organizations to demand the release of imprisoned journalists on the continent
- Iraqi regulator wants to suspend Reuters over coronavirus reporting
- Egypt blocks online “fake news” about coronavirus
Libya
Parents of Austin Tice Pen Open Letter Ahead of Anniversary
Marc and Debra Tice hold a news conference about their missing son, American journalist Austin Tice. Photo: Spencer Platt/Getty Images
August 14 will mark the seventh anniversary of freelance journalist Austin Tice’s disappearance while reporting on the civil war in Syria. In an open letter published in the Washington Post, Marc and Debra Tice (Austin’s parents) call on journalists, political leaders and readers to take action.