Journalism

Multiple reports this week from various Afghan provinces indicated that the Taliban terrorists in charge of the country have begun enforcing a ban on the publication of pictures and videos of living things, human or otherwise, in mass media – effectively rendering journalism impossible.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov blamed American media for the delay in negotiations to swap captive American journalist Evan Gershkovich.

The Wall Street Journal denounced Russia’s secret espionage trial of its reporter Evan Gershkovich as a “travesty of justice.”

The communist regime in Cuba sentenced 22-year-old Mayelín Rodríguez Prado to 15 years in prison this week for filming peaceful protests in the town of Nuevitas in August 2022.

Vatican prosecutor Alessandro Diddi has filed charges against an Italian Catholic journalist, accusing him of “defamation” of Pope Francis as well as divulging confidential documents.

Wall Street Journal reporter and American citizen Evan Gershkovich marked one year in captivity as a hostage of Russia on March 29.

AI has reportedly left its mark on the prestigious Pulitzer Prizes for journalism, with five finalists incorporating the technology in their potentially award-winning submissions.

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released its annual census of imprisoned reporters this weekend, and found China was once again the world’s worst jailer of journalists, followed closely by Myanmar, with Belarus in third place.

The New York Times issued a statement Thursday denying that photographer Yousef Masoud had accompanied Hamas terrorists to the October 7 terror attack on Israel, among other photographers identified by the pro-Israel watchdog Honest Reporting.

New Delhi police arrested the editor of NewsClick, a website critical of President Narendra Modi’s administration.

While President Biden begs for billions more in aid to Ukraine, an American citizen journalist is languishing in a Ukrainian prison.

News Corp CEO Robert Thomson recently raised alarms about the growing influence of AI-generated content in the media landscape, criticizing its left-wing bias and potential for spreading inaccuracies. Thomson argues that the end result could be an “ever-shrinking circle of sanity surrounded by a reservoir of rubbish.”

Syndicated Boston radio host Howie Carr appeared on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Saturday, where he offered his perspective on how the news industry has moved from a working-class trade, in which reporters worked their way up from local outlets to larger platforms, to one that is now dominated by elites who serve as lapdogs to those in power. 

Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro’s bodyguards and members of Brazil’s Institutional Security Bureau (GSI) assaulted Brazilian journalists on Tuesday evening at the Itamaraty Palace in response to their attempts to ask Maduro questions.

Reporters Without Borders (commonly known by its French acronym RSF) published its annual World Press Freedom Index on Wednesday, which the United Nations observed as the 30th annual Press Freedom Day.

The Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Press Freedom Index, published on Wednesday, ranked communist North Korea as the world’s worst place to be a journalist, concluding a list whose least prestigious spots are dominated by communist regimes.

Russia announced on Wednesday that 31-year-old American journalist Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), was arrested in Ekaterinburg and charged with espionage.

Independent journalist Andy Ngo told Breitbart News that accurate reporting is what threatens the left.

German news magazine Der Spiegel has retracted a number of false reports of a dead Syrian child on the Greek border after the Greek Migration Minister insisted the reports were erroneous. The magazine published the retraction on Friday, clarifying that

Pro-lifers say the new guidelines “demonstrate even further the extent of the media’s bias in favor of abortion.”

A BBC reporter was arrested and beaten by China police on Sunday while covering protests in Shanghai against the country’s draconian zero-coronavirus policy.

Police in Thailand are reportedly investigating allegations that a CNN crew violated restrictions on the crime scene and inappropriately entered the nursery where a former police officer killed dozens of children and adults with a gun and knife last Thursday.

It appears that newsroom managers have warned reporters against voicing their personal views on abortion as SCOTUS weighs Roe v. Wade.

Pope Francis has sharply censured journalists for falling into four “sins,” namely “disinformation, slander, defamation, and coprophilia.”

Fox News correspondent Benjamin Hall was reportedly injured near the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv on Monday, severely enough to require hospitalization.

A series of reports Sunday state award-winning American photojournalist and filmmaker Brent Renaud has been killed in Ukraine.

Pope Francis told journalists and professional communicators Monday that listening to all voices is essential in order to provide “solid, balanced, and complete information.”

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) accused authoritarian governments in a report published Thursday of using the Chinese coronavirus pandemic as an excuse to intensify repression, revealing that it had documented the highest number of imprisoned journalists globally for the second consecutive year in 2021.

Journalists who cover crime in Oakland, California, are now becoming the victims of crimes as news crews are being targeting for expensive equipment.

Afghanistan’s journalist union revealed on Wednesday that many of its members remain trapped in the country – where the ruling Taliban jihadists group regularly assaults and terrorizes journalists – because of “vast fraud” in which non-journalists bought reporter identification cards on the black market and used them to flee.

The anti-communist newspaper Epoch Times denounced this weekend the arrest of Luka Binniyat, a reporter for the publication based in Nigeria and focused on Christian persecution there at the hands of Fulani jihadists.

In his new book, Spicer said he explores the complicity of the media and its refusal to hold the Biden administration accountable.

Hong Kong Secretary for Security Chris Tang on Wednesday commanded the Hong Kong Journalists’ Association (HKJA) to hand over a list of all its members, where they are employed, and how many of them are students. Tang accused the HKJA of “infiltrating” schools and “recruiting” students for subversive activities.

Afghanistan’s celebrated free press and media industry has been transformed due to the Taliban terrorist group’s takeover of the country.

The Afghan news network Pajhwok reported on Thursday that Afghanistan has lost 27 media outlets – including both television and print/online media – since the Taliban took over the country on August 15.

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro told a reporter to “shut up” and referred to her employer’s parent company as “sh*tty” – and most journalists as “bastards” – in a tirade this week prompted by a question regarding mask mandates, Argentina’s Infobae reported Tuesday.