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Source: © First Post One of Al Jazeera’s most recognisable faces in Gaza, journalist Anas al-Sharif has died following a targeted Israeli attack on a tent housing journalists in Gaza City on Sunday evening

Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif dies in Israeli attack

World News Day 2025 will take place on 28 September (Image supplied)

World News Day 2025: Journalism makes a difference

7 Jul 2025

Source: © BBC The BBC is the most trusted international news provider amongst all audiences as well as the UK’s most recognised cultural export internationally

BBC the UK's most trusted news provider internationally

13 May 2025

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Introducing the Effie Lions Foundation: Building a marketing industry for everyone

Association for Communication and Advertising Introducing the Effie Lions Foundation: Building a marketing industry for everyone

13 Jun 2025

Human8 names Tim Nguyen product and innovation manager to further advance insight solutions

Human8 Human8 names Tim Nguyen product and innovation manager to further advance insight solutions

11 Jun 2025

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Source: © UNESCO
This year, World Press Freedom Day, 3 May, will focus on the profound influence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) on journalism and media under the theme: Reporting in the Brave New World – The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Press Freedom and the Media

World Press Freedom Day 2025: The impact of AI on media and press freedom

2 May 2025

Source: © BBC The BBC Board has identified serious flaws in the making of the programme Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone

BBC News takes full responsibility for Gaza: How To Survive A Warzone shortcomings

3 Mar 2025

Source: © The Economic Times President-elect Donald Trump is making a U-turn on banning TikTok in the US

Trump's U-turn on the banning of TikTok

Danette Breitenbach 2 Jan 2025

Source: © Cottonbro Studio There is uncertainty for advertisers on TikTok as the platform's future hangs in the balance with Trump’s return to power

Uncertainty for TikTok advertisers with Trump’s return to power

8 Nov 2024

Source: © 123rf A handbook has been published ahead of the US elections as a resource for newsrooms worldwide to battle fake news

Newsroom blueprint to combat AI and fake news published ahead of US elections

4 Nov 2024

Source: © VOA News Meta will ban RT, Rossiya Segodnya and other Russian state media networks from its platforms including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads

Meta bans Russia state media across all platforms as “covert influence” operations threaten US election

Danette Breitenbach 17 Sep 2024

Palestinian AFP photojournalist Mahmud Hams was awarded the Visa d’Or News prize for his coverage of the conflict in Gaza (Image supplied)

Palestinian photojournalist Mahmud Hams awarded Visa d'Or for powerful Gaza war coverage

9 Sep 2024

This year a new campaign, Choose Truth, created by South Africa's Daily Maverick, will be featured for World News Day (Image supplied)

South Africa's Daily Maverick's Choose Truth campaign for World News Day

12 Aug 2024

Image supplied. Carlos Fernando Chamorro, editor-in-chief of Confidencial (Photo: Mick Friis)

Nicaraguan journalist Carlos Fernando Chamorro awarded Wan-Ifra's Golden Pen of Freedom

31 May 2024

Source: © Alexandr Rozhkov

Assange's unconditional release called for by R2K

5 Jan 2022

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Wan-Ifra backs call for UN investigation into Jamal Khashoggi's murder

2 Oct 2019

The Golden Pen of Freedom award. © .

Jamal Khashoggi awarded Golden Pen of Freedom

3 Jun 2019

WikiLeaks site slams costs of policing Assange

WikiLeaks site slams costs of policing Assange

9 Feb 2015

Julian Assange believes he too is being targeted. (Image extracted from YouTube)

WikiLeaks accuses Google of handing over emails to US government

27 Jan 2015

Peppa Pig is in the news... newsPeppa, then? The publisher's ban has been described as 'absolute utter nonsense' by a Muslim MP. (Attribution: at )

Publisher prohibits pork talk

19 Jan 2015

(Image: Jonund, via Wikimedia Commons)

Media freedom requires commitment to truth

Pallo Jordan 5 Jul 2014

"Our adversaries are rubbing their hands with glee. Al-Qaeda is lapping it up," John Sawers, the head of British foreign spy agency MI6, told lawmakers in London. (Image: Italo-Europeo, via Wikimedia Commons)

British MPs to quiz Guardian editor on Snowden leaks

11 Nov 2013

Britain faces furore over Snowden-linked detention

21 Aug 2013

WikiLeaks expects Manning to appeal 'dangerous' verdict

31 Jul 2013

World press backs UK media industry's self-regulatory proposal

World press backs UK media industry's self-regulatory proposal

3 May 2013

Two special rapporteurs call for accountability in crimes against journalists

21 Jun 2012

Looted Sainsbury's in Chalk Farm, Camden, after 2011 riots.(Image: Hugh Paul, London, via Wikimedia Commons)

UK riots: Don't blame social media

16 Aug 2011

The ProPublica reader's guide to the phone hacking scandal

The ProPublica reader's guide to the phone hacking scandal

Braden Goyette, ProPublica 21 Jul 2011

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