Editor’s note: This article is part of an ongoing series about press freedom and safety in various countries around the world. Last week, the Pakistani daily Dawn reported that its distributors and vendors were experiencing harassment and intimidation in several cities to prevent them from delivering the paper to subscribers. That followed an incident in April, in which the country’s largest television channel, Geo, was blocked by its cable operators across 80 percent of the country. Many in Pakistan saw the hand of the military behind the incidents. In an email interview, Michael Kugelman, deputy director of the Asia Program [...]
Press Freedom & Safety
Journalists around the world face a wide range of challenges and outright threats to their work, from limits on what they can publish to intimidation and even murder. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, 54 journalists were killed for their work last year. Only 9 percent of humankind lives in a country where Reporters Without Borders regards press freedom to be “good or satisfactory.” In this series of articles and interviews, WPR explores issues related to press freedom and safety around the globe.
Editor’s note: This article is part of an ongoing series about press freedom and safety in various countries around the world. On May 31, 12 reporters from Slovakia’s public television and radio broadcaster, RTVS, resigned to protest what they called the politicization of news coverage under recently appointed management. The mass resignation followed the March murder of investigative journalist Jan Kuciak, which triggered protests that ultimately brought down the government of then-Prime Minister Robert Fico. In an email interview, Andrej Školkay, director of the School of Communication and Media in Bratislava, discusses the charges of politicization of Slovakia’s public media, [...]
Editor’s note: This article is part of an ongoing series about press freedom and safety in various countries around the world. May has been a tough month for press freedom in Cambodia. On May 5, the Phnom Penh Post, an independent newspaper often critical of the Cambodian government, was sold to a Malaysian investor with links to Prime Minister Hun Sen. And on May 18, a court refused to release two Radio Free Asia reporters who have been held in pretrial detention for six months on charges of espionage. In an email interview, Sebastian Strangio, a journalist focusing on Southeast [...]