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Journalists in Gaza need your help. Here’s how

2023-12-08. The death of 63 journalists in Gaza and the displacement and trauma of hundreds of others is devastating to watch. Among over 16,000 civilian deaths, the catastrophe unfolding before us is rendered even worse by a sense of powerlessness. Despite the challenges of delivering assistance to Gaza, there are initiatives aimed at directly supporting journalists and their families.

Gaza war: Israeli government has Haaretz newspaper in its sights as it tightens screws on media freedom

2023-11-29. The Israeli government is putting pressure on the left-leaning newspaper Haaretz to line up in support of the government in its conduct of the war in Gaza.

View from Palestine: Warped lives and journalism

2023-11-28. Fifty days of Israel’s deadly bombardment of Gaza. Fifteen thousand people including 10,000 women and children and 57 journalists have been killed. We are focused on the daily events and travesty of war but as Shuruq AlAssad tells Fatemah Farag – the only way to contextualize this violence is to know about life and journalism under Israeli occupation.

Faces of tragedy: the journalists killed in the Israel-Gaza war

2023-11-22 Gaza’s journalists are risking death every hour of every day to do whatever they can to get news to the outside world. Over the past five weeks, a staggering number have lost their lives doing so, as well as colleagues from Israel and Lebanon. The killing must stop.

#Impunity Day: new data shows disturbing trends in media attacks ahead of elections

2023-11-02. New data from UNESCO reveals chilling new trends in the increasing – often lethal – attacks on journalists; notably, that they are more vulnerable during elections. WAN-IFRA warns that the conditions for aggression are created well before voting day.

Sitting upon the dead

2023-11-01. The number of journalists who are killed on the job is on the rise. And we all have a responsibility – and interest – in taking a stand, writes World Editors Forum board member Fatemah Farag.

Weakness of democracy undermines calls for justice for journalists on Impunity Day

2023-11-01. Despite fine words and lofty goals for a more just, equal world, time and again the principles underpinning a rights-based society are simply ignored. The press bears the brunt daily.

WAN-IFRA condemns the Chilean president’s attacks on the press and recalls that freedom of expression is a fundamental right.

2023-10-27. WAN-IFRA, the World Association of News Publishers, strongly condemns threats and political pressure on journalists after Gabriel Boric’s harsh criticism of Chilean media.

Fight back against normalisation of attacks on journalists – Martha Ramos

2023-10-27. The disturbing number of journalists killed, harmed or jailed while doing their job keeps rising – amid continued failure to get justice for most of these crimes. Ahead of the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, Martha Ramos, President of the World Editors Forum, calls for a more forceful response from newsrooms.

Editors condemn prison sentences for Iranian journalists

2023-10-27. Iranian journalists Niloofar Hamedi and Elaheh Mohammadi, recipients of WAN-IFRA’s 2023 Golden Pen of Freedom Award, were sentenced this week to 12 and 13 years in prison, drawing widespread condemnation and renewed calls for their release.