Category Archives: Press Freedom

A ChinaFile Conversation:How to Read China’s New Press Restrictions

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Advice for journalists in China: Hire a lawyer

Investigative journalists in China have always had to bow to censorship and worry about being arrested. But this year, the Communist party has stopped them from working altogether

Malcolm Moore By Malcolm Moore, Beijing7:00AM BST 17 Jul 2014

For years a journalist who I shall call Mr Chen has run the investigation unit of one of China’s most daring newspapers. Continue reading

IndexDrawtheLine: Can art or journalism ever be terrorism?

By Farah Wael / 14 July, 2014

Three Al Jazeera journalists were among those sentenced to prison on terrorism charges.

In 1997, British journalist Robert Fisk interviewed Bin Laden. Fisk was not accused of being a terrorist, he was only doing his job. For decades, journalists have been interviewing terrorists, Continue reading

Balkans home to nearly half of media freedom violations

 

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Since its launch at the end of May, over 170 cases have been submitted on the media freedom crowd-sourcing platform promoted by Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso and Index on Censorship. Continue reading

Tienchi Martin-Liao:A Mud Battle Fought in A Quagmire-Censorship and corruption in Chinese journalism

by Tienchi Martin-Liao / November 20, 2013


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Express reporter Chen Yongzhu. Photo courtesy of Tienchi Martin-Liao via news.163.com.

Over the last 18 months Chen Yongzhou, Continue reading

The completely serious decline of the Hollywood comedy

By John McDuling @jmcduling July 3, 2014

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IFJ condemns Ming Pao senior manager for violating editorial independence

 

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July 3, 2014

IFJ condemns Ming Pao senior manager for violating editorial independence

 

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the Hong Kong Journalists Association (HKJA), and the Ming Pao Union in condemning a senior executive of Ming Pao newspaper for deleting, without consultation, key words from headlines about the July 1 rally for democracy.
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Banned Books Around the World

October 4, 2012 Jen Rickard Blair

As Banned Books Week comes to a close, we shift our gaze upon the censorship of authors on an international scale. Below is a list of 17 books that have been banned in the last decade. The original version of this list can be found in WLT’s censorship issue published in September 2006. Continue reading