#Asia 🌏 In our latest brief: #India-#Pakistan tension ignites a vicious information warfare, #WPFD2025 in the region, media reform proposals for #SouthKorea & the #Philippines, plus a deeply moving letter from a journalist detained in #China.
Americas Group Alarmed by Rise in Exiled Journos tinyurl.com/bdysj8nw #pressfreedom
#journalism #WPFD #WPFD2025 #Nicaragua #Cuba @shiguerita @Rosental
#journalism #journalismsNEWS #USAID
@LatAmJournalism
@LatAmPeriodismo #pressfreedom #Cuba #Haiti #Nicaragua #Venezuela #immigration #exile
My latest Asia brief for @ifex.org: Information warfare in Pakistan-India, #WPFD2025 in the region, @rsf.org media reform proposals, interviews with Myanmar media and an exiled Vietnamese blogger, and a prison letter from China. @mizzimadailynews.substack.com
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On 7 March, for World Press Freedom Day at Bozar, Brussels, AI's impact on journalism was discussed with speeches from @unesco.org DG @aazoulay.bsky.social and Belgian ministers.
Thank you to all speakers and participants.
#PressFreedom #WPFD2025 #UNESCO #Belgium #Bozar #ThankAJournalist
Experts warn that existing legislation is failing to protect media.
Full story at: iwpr.net/gcrhsqz1
#WorldPressFreedomDay2025 #WPFD2025 #PressFreedom #journalism #FreeExpression #LawReform #Moldova
Aida Al-Kaisy, co-founder of Jummar Media explains why young Iraqis urgently need an information space where they can learn, contribute and share perspectives.
Full story at: iwpr.net/ykec7l4x
#WorldPressFreedomDay2025 #WPFD #WPFD2025 #PressFreedom #FreeExpression #Iraq #youth
#Africa 🌍 @MISARegional launched their 2025 State of Press Freedom in Southern Africa report, warning that the region’s media faces an existential threat amid AI disruption, rising authoritarianism, and shrinking civic space. #WPFD2025
#Perú En breve inicia encuentro por la Libertad de Prensa, en el marco de la #WPFD2025, organizado por @ANP_periodistas @PNUDperu @OACNUDHPeru @UNESCOperu @ConsejodePrensa @IPYS
En momentos en que el periodismo en Perú se encuentra bajo asedio, se convierte en espacio esencial
@yungonion.bsky.social from @mediadiversity.bsky.social
spoke at #WPFD2025 on two key panels: one on uplifting migrant voices through the MigraVoice platform, and another on rising threats to media freedom in Georgia, including FARA. Press freedom needs action now. #MediaFreedom #MigraVoice #Georgia
#Palestine 🇵🇸 “The international community’s paralysis in the face of these crimes is unacceptable,” said IFEX’s Sarah Clarke, reaffirming support for Mada Center and efforts to defend Palestinian journalists amid Israel's war on Gaza. #WPFD2025
When we asked why this #WPFD2025 is different, Ukrainian journalist Anastasia Rudenko told us: “Right now, it feels like a perfect storm has hit independent media.” Hear from other journalists in our network: www.icfj.org/news/press-f...
How Pacific media groups celebrated World Press Freedom Day. #WPFD2025
My latest piece for @globalvoices.org
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When we asked why this #WPFD2025 is different, Ukrainian journalist Anastasia Rudenko told us: “Right now, it feels like a perfect storm has hit independent media.” Hear from other journalists in our network: buff.ly/8X3WaN3
#Nigeria 🇳🇬 Media Rights Agenda marked #WPFD2025 by launching a visual brief calling for ethical AI use in journalism - highlighting both its promise and threats to press freedom and the democratic discourse.
#Bahrain 🇧🇭 Bahrain Center for Human Rights expresses deep concern over the systematic repression of press freedom—from the 2017 closure of Al‑Wasat to ongoing criminalisation of speech, state #censorship, and a culture of fear that erodes civic space. #WPFD2025
🚨 In conflictzones, #media have the right to report!
➡️ Free from violence
➡️ Free from jail
➡️ Free from bullets
📢 Last Saturday was #WorldPressFreedomDay, support the free press and join our fight! Share this message! 2/2
🎥 Egon Van Asperen
#WPFD #WPFD2025 #pressfreedom #safetyforjournalists
This week, #Belgium hosted the World #PressFreedom Conference focusing on press freedom and the impact of AI on journalism, and a panel discussion on fair trials and accountability.
We stand up for media freedom and the safety of journalists. #WPFD2025
#Global 🌐 @rsf-interfr.bsky.social 's World Press Freedom Report 2025 shows press freedom declining globally. The last year has seen a wave of media outlet shutdowns in all regions, and media freedom is now "entirely absent" in 42 countries. buff.ly/ptRQnUi #WPFD2025 #PressFreedom
#Philippines 🇵🇭 Media watchdogs have documented 184 cases of attacks targeting journalists over the past year. Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility asserted that "without a free and fearless press, democracy dies in silence." #WPFD2025
Today is the most dangerous time to be a journalist in CPJ’s history. We welcome the bipartisan resolution from Senators Brian Schatz and Thom Tillis that calls for accountability for attacks on journalists, including those in the U.S.
Read more⤵️
www.schatz.senate.gov/news/press-r... #WPFD2025
#Lebanon 🇱🇧 A new Maharat Foundation report finds Lebanese journalists operate in unsafe conditions with weak legal protection, unchecked digital pressures, and rampant rumours—weakening their watchdog role. #WPFD2025 buff.ly/DH1mkLP
#MENA: Media freedom still under attack across the region
On #WPFD2025 the MENA Alliance for Digital Rights, of which GCHR is a member, expressed deep concern over the ongoing deterioration of freedom of expression & media freedom @smex.org @article19.bsky.social
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#Gambia 🇬🇲 During #WPFD2025 commemorations, the Gambia Press Union warned that government inaction and repressive laws like the Criminal Offences Bill along with poor working conditions are reversing hard-won media freedoms in the country.
#WPFD2025: I completely agree with Jan Braathu, @oscemediafreedom.bsky.social: journalism is a public good and the use of AI in journalism requires a strict ethical commitment.
#WPFD
#Brazil 🇧🇷 ARTIGO19 marked World Press Freedom Day by reaffirming that defending journalism is defending democracy. In 2024, over 420 judicial harassment cases were recorded—one every 3 days. #WPFD2025
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#WPFD2025: Thibaut Bruttin, from @rsf.org, rightly points out the passivity of European policymakers in the face of the deregulatory blows of Big Tech and the AI industry.
#WPFD
@unesco.org Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2025 has been awarded to Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa.
#WPFD2025 #WPFD
This #WPFD2025, we asked some of the journalists we work with to share what press freedom challenges they’re facing – and what has made it possible to continue their journalism. Read what they said: www.icfj.org/news/press-f...
[EVENT] #CARICARTOONS2025
📷 A look back at the citizen and artistic workshops organised around World Press Freedom Day #WPFD2025 with ESF, which resulted in the creation of a fresco inspired by Guffo's cartoon (Mexico) in the public space 📍 Paris: www.cartooningforpeace.org/en/evenement...
