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RSF: On the eve of France’s opening match at the 2026 FIFA World Cup, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) coordinated an international show of support for French sports journalist Christophe Gleizes, who has been imprisoned in Algeria for nearly a year.
BOTSWANA: Examining the role of Botswana’s proposed media Ombudsman
Mmegi: The proposed Draft Media Bill 2025 seeks to establish a Media Ombudsman to ensure a new mechanism for journalistic accountability and safeguard public trust.
ETHIOPIA: Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation begins cooperation with TV BRICS
TV BRICS: The BRICS+ audience will have access to unique television materials about the ethnocultural diversity of Africa and the business prospects of the continent
GHANA: Govt to table recapitalisation plan for Ghana Broadcasting Corporation soon — Kwakye Ofosu
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GHANA: Minority demands urgent government action to protect State Broadcaster’s lands from encroachment (Watch)
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KENYA: Journalist leaders resolve to drive fact-based migration narratives in Eastern Africa
IFJ: The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ) —one of the regional groups of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)— in collaboration with the Federation of Eastern Africa Journalists (FEAJ), successfully concluded the Eastern Africa Regional Meeting on Media Capacity Building on Informed Migration Narratives and Local Opportunities, held in Mombasa, Kenya, from 18 to 20 June 2026.
MOZAMBIQUE: Mozambique Exposed: Informing Under Constraint (French)
RFI: Since 2020, four Mozambican journalists have been murdered or are missing. Others were injured or attacked during the 2024 post-election crisis. Despite legal complaints, no one has ever been held accountable in any of these cases.
NIGERIA: Again, Appeal Court strikes out NBC’s bid to overturn judgment barring fines on broadcasters
ICIR: THE Court of Appeal in Abuja has struck out a fresh appeal by the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) seeking to overturn a Federal High Court judgment restraining it from imposing fines on broadcast stations.
NIGERIA: Nigeria Advances Digital Switch Over as Stakeholders Reach Major Industry Consensus on DSO Rollout
Tech Africa News: The Minister noted that the level of consensus reflects strong industry readiness and a shared commitment to repositioning Nigeria’s broadcasting sector for digital competitiveness.
SAHEL: Sahel Military Juntas Crush Free Speech And Democratic Rights Across Mali, Niger And Burkina Faso
Foreign Policy Journal: Since the wave of coups that swept Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso between 2020 and 2023, military rulers have imposed sweeping criminal defamation and antiterrorism laws enabling the arbitrary detention of journalists, bloggers and activists.
SOUTH AFRICA: SABC and Vodacom partner to expand affordable access to the FIFA World Cup on SABC Plus (Press release)
SABC: The SABC has partnered with Vodacom South Africa to expand access to the FIFA World Cup 2026 through affordable data offerings on SABC Plus.
OTHER: Home-Grown Solutions Critical To Africa’s Broadcasting Future – According To MD of UBC Uganda
BMA: Africa’s broadcasting industry must accelerate efforts to develop resilient, locally relevant, and future-ready transmission infrastructure to meet the demands of modern audiences and remain competitive in an increasingly digital media environment.
AFGHANISTAN: Taliban allow Rah-e-Farda TV to resume broadcasting under new license
Amu: Taliban have allowed Rah-e-Farda TV, a private broadcaster that was taken off the air earlier this year, to resume operations under a new license and revised ownership structure, according to a document and sources familiar with the matter.
BANGLADESH: Initiatives taken to modernise BD’s information sector: Swapon
Daily Observer: Information and Broadcasting Minister Zahir Uddin Swapon on Monday told Parliament that the government has undertaken a series of initiatives to transform the country’s information and broadcasting sector into a modern, technology-driven and internationally competitive industry.
HKFP: The 2026 Digital News Report said that journalists in the city are “treading carefully to avoid crossing vaguely defined legal red lines and, as a result, practising more self-censorship.” The government, in turn, says press freedom is respected.
MALAYSIA & TIMOR LESTE: Fahmi seeks stronger media ties with Timor-Leste through Bernama, RTM
New Straits Times: Communications Minister Datuk Fahmi Fadzil is seeking to strengthen media cooperation with Timor-Leste through agencies under his ministry, including the Malaysian National News Agency (Bernama) and Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM).
MYANMAR: Myanmar junta shuts down 97 media licences as press freedom crackdown continues
BNI: Myanmar’s quasi-civilian junta revoked the operating licences of three more media outlets, Myaelatt Athan, Red News Agency, and Asia Citizens in May 2026, bringing the total number of suspended media agency licences to 97, according to the Athan human rights organisation’s monthly report on freedom of expression.
NEPAL: Everything You Need to Know About Nepal Television’s Multi-Million Procurement Scandal
Nepal News: A government probe is examining a controversial Rs 48.7 million tender that critics say was tailored for a single bidder, while a dispute over payments has pushed the broadcaster’s potential liability to Rs 51.5 million.
NEPAL: Media Stakeholders Urge Government to Reconsider Advertising Ban
Ratopati: Media stakeholders have urged the government to reconsider its policy of banning advertisements and public notices to private media, stating that the communication sector is in crisis.
NORTH KOREA: North Korea accused of illegally broadcasting 2026 FIFA World Cup matches
The Korea Times: North Korea is facing renewed allegations that its state-run Korean Central Television (KCTV) aired 2026 FIFA World Cup matches without securing broadcast rights.
PAKISTAN: NA speaker Ayaz Sadiq ‘restores’ airing of PTI speeches
Dawn: National Assembly Speaker Sardar Ayaz Sadiq on Sunday lifted longstanding curbs on the airing and dissemination of opposition members’ speeches on NA TV, and the assembly’s social media platforms.
TAIWAN: Taiwan’s president meets the world’s reporters
Taipei Times: For the first time in nearly a decade, a sitting Taiwanese president sat down with the foreign press corps — offering both access and a pointed defense of media freedom in the face of Beijing’s intimidation
THAILAND: Thai PBS launches BKKElection69 Platform to report real-time, comprehensive results of the Bangkok gubernatorial election. (Press release – Thai)
Thai PBS: The countdown to the final stretch on June 28, 2026, the election day for the Governor of Bangkok and members of the Bangkok Metropolitan Council (BMA Council), is underway.
VIETNAM: State Media in Việt Nam Enters New Era of Consolidation
The Vietnamese: Hồ Chí Minh City’s new press and broadcast agency has marked another major step in Việt Nam’s effort to reshape its state-run media system into fewer, larger, and more centrally managed multimedia institutions, Tuổi Trẻ Newspaper reports.
AUSTRALIA: ABC launches Bluey in Indigenous Language for NAIDOC Week 2026 (Press release)
ABC: The ABC today announced a major Indigenous language initiative for NAIDOC Week, bringing Australia’s most loved blue heeler family to audiences in Yolŋu Matha, the First Nations language of Northeast Arnhem Land.
AUSTRALIA: Australians place growing trust in SBS News (Press release)
SBS: SBS has been recognised as one of Australia’s most trusted news providers, ranking equal first in the 2026 Reuters Digital News Report.
AUSTRALIA: Pauline Hanson’s criticism of Guardian reporter labelled an ‘assault on free press’
ABC: Pauline Hanson’s attack on a Guardian journalist questioning her at the National Press Club yesterday was an “assault on the freedom of the press”, the media union says, as Labor and Liberal MPs criticise the One Nation leader for getting personal with journalists.
AUSTRALIA: ‘The SBS will be gone’: Pauline Hanson unloads on public media in Press Club address
Mumbrella: One Nation leader Pauline Hanson made her debut at the National Press Club on Wednesday, using her closing remarks to flag sweeping changes to Australia’s public broadcasters.
FIJI: Government pushes digital connectivity agenda
FBC: The Government is stepping up efforts to strengthen Fiji’s telecommunications sector and advance the country’s digital transformation agenda.
NEW ZEALAND: All Whites opening World Cup match delivers TVNZ+ its largest streaming day ever
RNZ: The All Whites gripping opening FIFA World Cup match against Iran, which ended in a 2-2 draw, saw TVNZ+ achieve record streaming numbers.
ALBANIA: Elected officials must refrain from public targeting and delegitimisation of media organisations
MFRR: The undersigned organisations express concern over the public targeting and ethnic delegitimisation of Kristina Voko, the Executive Director of Balkan Investigative Reporting Network Albania (BIRN Albania), by Ardit Bino, a member of Parliament for the Socialist Party, currently in government.
BULGARIA: Bulgarian National Radio and Bulgarian Red Cross will partner in prevention and information campaigns during disasters (Press release – Bulgarian)
BNR: The Bulgarian National Radio and the Bulgarian Red Cross will partner in prevention campaigns and with information on response and assistance in disasters, accidents and catastrophes.
CZECH REPUBLIC: After the fees are abolished, we also want to strengthen content control, said SPD MP Nerušil (Czech)
iRozhlas: The next step after the abolition of radio and television fees should be to strengthen control mechanisms over broadcast content. This was stated by SPD MP Josef Nerušil on Czech Radio Plus. According to him, it is also necessary to discuss what the public service should look like.
CZECH REPUBLIC: The deficit in the CT budget may reach more than two billion (Press release – Czech)
CT: The proposed government bill to change the financing of Czech Television, if approved, will not allow it to comply with its obligations enshrined in legislation. The changes will deprive it not only of 1.3 billion crowns, but of a much higher amount, in the order of hundreds of millions.
CZECH REPUBLIC: Thousands of staff at Czech public broadcasters strike over funding plans
The Guardian: Industrial action is biggest escalation yet in months-long dispute with populist government of Andrej Babiš
ESTONIA: ETV+ warns Estonia’s language law changes could cut viewership
ERR: ETV+ editor-in-chief Ekaterina Taklaja says new restrictions on dubbing foreign-language content could significantly reduce ERR’s Russian-language audience.
RSF: While Finland ranks among the world leaders in press freedom, it still offers too few measures to help journalists forced into exile continue their work.
FINLAND: New study finds Yle’s online news boosts commercial publishers in Finland
EBU: A new independent study finds that greater use of Yle’s online news in Finland is associated with greater, not lower, use of commercial publishers’ online news. It further notes that news fatigue and unwillingness to pay for news as societal trends behind the downturn in interest in online news.
RSF: On May 19, France announced the forthcoming publication of a national plan for access to environmental and climate information. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has set out 10 recommendations to strengthen the promotion and protection of reliable and independent journalism on environmental issues.
FRANCE: Critical juncture for media freedom ahead of 2027 election
Article 19: The free press is under mounting pressure, fuelled by growing media ownership concentration, pressures on editorial independence from billionaire owners, the harassment of journalists through strategic lawsuits, insufficient legal safeguards to protect their rights and sources, and threats to reporters’ physical safety.
FRANCE: “No to the massacre”: Journalists, threatened by job cuts and the arrival of AI, demonstrate to “defend information” (Paywall – French)
Le Monde: Several hundred press professionals demonstrated in Paris on Thursday to raise awareness of the crisis in the sector, between increasing job cuts, a weakened economic model and upheavals linked to artificial intelligence.
GERMANY: Board concerned cuts will impact DW’s long-term viability (Press release)
DW: The Administrative Board of DW has expressed concern about funding cuts affecting Germany’s international broadcaster.
GERMANY: Citizens’ Council on Public Broadcasting (German)
Mehr Demokratie!: On June 18, 2026, the Brandenburg state parliament decided, at the request of state parliament president Ulrike Liedtke (SPD), to establish a citizens’ council for the reform of public broadcasting.
GERMANY: MDR honored as a “place of German democratic history” (German)
ARD: This award recognizes the professional, continuous, and reliable journalistic work of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (Central German Broadcasting) since its launch in 1992.
GERMANY: Musk to sue German broadcaster ZDF over ‘hunt for migrants’
DW: Elon Musk said he was taking legal action against one of Germany’s public broadcasters after it reported that he had called for “a hunt for migrants” in Belfast.
GERMANY: On balance in transformation (German – Newsletter)
ZDF: How television council member Kristina Sinemus views the ZDF streaming portal..
GERMANY: Was the rejection of the broadcasting fee unconstitutional? (Paywall – German)
Süddeutsche Zeitung: The Federal Constitutional Court is hearing the lawsuits filed by ARD and ZDF – even though the fee increase has since been postponed. A legally paradoxical situation.
GERMANY: ZDF on sanction clauses: Journalistic independence not affected (Press release – German)
ZDF: Sanctions, embargoes, and export controls are currently gaining importance for all global economic actors. Compliance with EU and UN sanctions is legally mandatory for ZDF under the Foreign Trade and Payments Act (AWG). Violations of the AWG are punishable by law or subject to fines.
HUNGARY: Hungary After Orbán: How to Rebuild Media Freedom and the Role of Funders
Media Journalism Research Centre: The landslide defeat of Viktor Orbán marks a turning point not only in Hungarian politics but also in the country’s media landscape. Yet the path from political change to genuine media freedom is not guaranteed. What follows will depend on institutional reform, market restructuring, and sustained philanthropic support for independent journalism.
HUNGARY: The TISZA Minister and His Party’s Preference for “Independent, Objective” Media
Hungary Today: “The restructuring of public-service media will take place in two steps. In this context, a public consultation will also be launched on what the public believes the role and mandate of public-service media should be,” the Minister for Social Relations and Culture wrote on Facebook on Tuesday.
ICELAND: Youth television (Press release – Icelandic)
RUV: The idea that young people don’t watch traditional television and pay little attention is quite persistent. Advertisers complain that it is difficult to reach younger audiences, especially people under 30.
LITHUANIA: Deputy Minister: Ministry is not preparing amendments to the LRT Law regarding the public service contract (Lithuanian)
LRT: The Ministry of Culture does not plan to prepare amendments to the Law on Lithuanian Radio and Television (LRT), which would provide for a public service agreement between the Government and the national broadcaster.
LITHUANIA: LRT reports to the public: 2025 is the year of free speech and growing connection with the audience (Lithuanian)
LRT: LRT presents its 2025 activity report to the public. It includes strengthening professional and independent journalism, preparedness to act in times of crisis, special attention to the 150th anniversary of MK Čiurlionis, the “RADAROM!” initiative that mobilized the public in support of Ukraine, a growing audience in the digital space, greater accessibility of content, and changes implemented after the National Audit Office audit, LRT announced in a press release to the media.
THE NETHERLANDS: NPO asks Dutch citizens to help shape public broadcasting programming. (Press release – Dutch)
NPO: What do the Dutch expect from public broadcasting in the future? That question is central to a public consultation that the NPO is organizing this summer.
NORWAY: NRK’s zoning plan adopted by Oslo City Council (Norwegian – Press release)
NRK: After several years of planning, studies and political consideration, Oslo City Council on Wednesday approved the zoning plan for NRK’s new headquarters in Normannsløkka.
POLAND: Landmark day for journalists as president signs anti-SLAPP law
Article19: Today is a landmark day for journalists, activists, and everyone who participates in public life. The president of Poland has signed the Bill on Special Measures for the Protection of Participants in Public Debate. After years of negotiations, advocacy, public campaigns, and legislative proposals, Poland has an anti-SLAPP law.
SERBIA: Journalist Dinko Gruhonjić is no longer safe in Serbia; the regime bears direct responsibility
EFJ: The EFJ and NDVN express full solidarity with Dinko and David Gruhonjić and states that violence, intimidation, and persecution will not silence those who stand for professional journalism, human rights, and democratic values.
SERBIA: Serbia Marks Rise in Attacks on Journalists, Report Says
Balkan Insight: An analysis of judiciary proceedings involving the media shows a record rise in attacks on journalists in Serbia and the use of frivolous lawsuits aimed at silencing independent and critical voices, a new report shows.
SWITZERLAND: Swiss parliament considers adding AI apps to media copyright bill
Swissinfo.ch: The Swiss parliament would like to require AI applications along with Google and social media platforms to pay copyright fees when displaying extracts from newspaper articles.
SWITZERLAND: Transformation is progressing, cost-cutting measures for 2027 are being specified – focus on structures and processes to protect the program. (Press release – German)
SRG SSR: The transformation of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG) continues. With its Enavant transformation project, the SRG is ensuring the company’s future viability and becoming more digital, agile, and efficient.
UK: BBC announces £160m in savings and 550 job closures (Press release)
BBC: The savings announced today will deliver around £160m of the £500m target of savings over the next three years
UK: Ministers to make YouTube and Meta boost prominence of UK news
FT: Move expected in British government green paper would set stage for fresh battle with Big Tech over online misinformation
UK: The BBC could be our best weapon against Trump, Musk and fake news. Here’s how that could work (Opinion)
The Guardian: A dynamic new strategy would allow the BBC to redefine what trusted news means, as it is still valued highly in this age of anxiety
Council of Europe: Thirty years after Ukraine joined the Council of Europe, approaches that were once framed primarily as efforts to combat racism and intolerance have evolved into a broader concept of inclusion.
UKRAINE: Suspilne Ukraine and NOVACT discuss future cooperation opportunities (Press release)
Suspilne: As part of expanding its network of international partnerships, Suspilne Ukraine hosted representatives of NOVACT (the International Institute for Nonviolent Action) at its Kyiv headquarters. During the meeting, both teams presented their key areas of work and discussed potential avenues for future cooperation.
RSF: Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are due to vote soon on the priorities and allocation of funds dedicated to journalism under the new AgoraEU programme, which aims to support all creative sectors.
REGIONAL: VRT and European broadcasters launch Northern Star Project to back ambitious new children’s drama (Press release)
VRT: Five leading Northern European public service broadcasters – VRT (Flanders), BBC (United Kingdom), DR (Denmark), NPO (Netherlands) and NRK (Norway) – have formed the Northern Star Project, a new partnership to support the creation of ambitious children’s dramas for audiences aged 7+.
ARGENTINA: They denounce the handover and privatization of the World Cup broadcast on Public Television. (Spanish)
Il Tiempo: Before Argentina’s opening match against Algeria, TVP workers assert that “for the first time in history, private entities will be the ones to keep the broadcasts and the money from the World Cup matches.”
BRAZIL: The municipalities of Juazeiro and Paulo Afonso in Bahia gain new channels from EBC. (Press release – Portuguese)
EBC: Partnership between EBC and Univasf, through TV Caatinga, expands access to public communication in the region.
COLOMBIA: What should happen to RTVC in the next government? (Column – Spanish)
La Silla Vacia: In this column, I want to focus on this government’s use of RTVC, why it was possible and so easy to do, and how the next government should transform it into a truly independent entity, for the sake of democracy and public debate in Colombia.
CHILE: Rocío Alorda, president of the College of Journalists: “Public media are the main way to confront information pandemics, disinformation and hate speech.” (Spanish)
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MEXICO: Mexico’s Laws Have a New Target: Journalists
The New York Times: Politicians and officials in Mexico are using the country’s laws to intimidate critics and the media, forcing them into censorship and blunting scrutiny.
PERU: María Fernanda Montenegro: TVPerú is at the service of the citizens and we work with responsibility and impartiality. (Press release – Spanish)
IRTP: The host of the news program “Primera Hora” emphasizes that Peruvians identify the channel as a reliable and informative public media outlet.
TURKS & CAICOS: The growing need for a public broadcasting television station in Turks and Caicos Islands
The Sun Turks and Caicos : The Turks and Caicos Islands, has undergone a remarkable transformation in how information is shared.
URUGUAY: Young people from Inisa will gain access to work experiences in public media (Spanish)
Presidency of Uruguay: Training, education and work activities are part of the tasks planned in the agreement signed between the National Institute of Social Inclusion of Adolescents (Inisa) and the National Audiovisual Communication Service (Secan), for the social reintegration of young people in conflict with the law.
News Source: “We will explore innovation while examining the ethics, authenticity, trust, safety and inclusion required of media practitioners in small developing societies where information can quickly shape public confidence and national conversation,” the CBU President said.
ISRAEL: 15 articles a day: The extent of the Israeli army’s media interference
+972: In 2025, the military censor banned or redacted over 5,000 news reports, with suppression peaking during Israel’s war with Iran.
ISRAEL: How Israel’s Media Turned Good Journalists Into Agents of Self-censorship (Book review)
Haaretz: A mix of government pressure, populist attacks, and internalized self-censorship is influencing the way Israeli journalists report on Gaza. Dr. Ayala Panievsky has an answer to this terrible failure
JORDAN: Jordanian Parliamentary Delegation Visits Arab States Broadcasting Union In Tunis
MenaFN: A Jordanian parliamentary delegation headed by Hussein Al-Amoush, Chairman of the National Guidance and Media Committee in the Lower House, visited the Arab States Broadcasting Union in the Tunisian capital and met with the union’s Director-General, Abdel Rahim Suleiman, along with senior officials.
LEBANON: Threats, intimidation and air strikes: the perilous work of environmental reporters in Lebanon
RSF: Investigative reporting is unwelcome in a country where environmental issues often clash with the interests of those in positions of power.
TURKEY: IPI condemns increasing use of arbitrary court orders to censor independent journalism
IPI: Recent access-blocking measures shine a spotlight on tight judicial censorship
CANADA: CBC must provide more local coverage, Senate committee urges
CBC: CBC/Radio-Canada must provide more local coverage in emerging “news deserts” where declining advertising revenue has resulted in the closure of hundreds of outlets in the past two decades, according to a new Senate report on Canada’s public broadcaster.
CANADA: CBC/Radio-Canada Ramps Up Commitment to Sports Coverage and Canada’s Athletes Including New Weekend Programming (Press release)
CBC: Following record-breaking viewership of the Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026, CBC/Radio Canada today announced that the national public broadcaster will significantly increase its commitment to sports coverage of Canada’s high-performance athletes, professional women’s sport and of major sporting events hosted in Canada and around the world.
CANADA: CBC’s ‘increased presence’ in local news would expand ‘predatory’ practice (Editorial)
Nunatsiaq: Maybe we should have said it louder. It’s almost as if the senators were asleep when we told them CBC engaged in “predatory business practices” that hurt private-sector news organizations, including Nunatsiaq News.
CANADA: End of NHL broadcasts on CBC raises public access questions, advocacy group says
CKOM: A media advocacy group says the end of NHL broadcasts on CBC television raises concerns about public access to a cherished Canadian tradition.
CANADA: Why Hockey Night in Canada is ending—and what this says about the CBC (Opinion)
The Hub: The news that Hockey Night in Canada won’t return to the CBC this fall has prompted a wave of nostalgia, and understandably so. For nearly 75 years, it was a Saturday-night fixture of Canadian life. Even as someone who has argued in favour of defunding the public broadcaster, I cannot help but feel like something is being lost.
US: Austin PBS seeks $6M to help secure future of ‘Austin City Limits’
Current.org: To bolster its new Austin City Limits Trust, the station is pulling out all the stops and may even take the show on the road.
US: California needs to protect public broadcasting (Opinion)
Capitol Weekly: In July of last year, Congress and the President decimated all funding for public media in our nation, pulling the financial rug out from under hundreds of public radio and television stations.
US: N.J. handed MSU public TV without fixing the laws that could doom it (Opinion)
NJ: Montclair State has won the right to create and run a new model for public broadcasting in this state.
US: Russia was a cautionary tale. Now US risks becoming it (Opinion)
USA Today: The lesson from Russia is not that censorship arrives at once. It’s that it creeps, step by step, through intimidation, favoritism and legal harassment. It escalates to violence and imprisonment.
Climate change: weather journalists threatened by climate change deniers (French)
RFI: Their work is essential to ensuring our safety and health and to protecting our economies, particularly agriculture, during extreme weather events such as heat waves, floods, and cyclones. And yet, they are the target of increasingly virulent attacks.
Le Monde blocked the bots. Now it’s working out what to do about paying readers showing up as agents
Digiday: The French news publisher now blocks almost all non-human traffic unless there’s a licensing deal in place, including Google’s AI training crawler Google Extended.
CJR: In the first edition of our new technology advice column, Ask Anika, we learn what happens when you feed unpublished work into an LLM.
RSF: Against an international backdrop marked by political and security tensions, the number of countries from which media professionals have been forced to flee has doubled in five years, according to RSF data.
The impact of the World Cup on global audiences and sports broadcasting
24: Over 54 million viewers watched the opening matches involving the United States, Canada and Mexico on TV, and more than a million fans have already enjoyed the experience in the stadiums
The Newsground turns to coffee to fund investigative journalism
Nieman Lab: A new outlet pairs accountability reporting with a product that readers can sip.
What weapons do we have to fight against anti-democratic rhetoric? (French)
RTBF: With the rise of populist rhetoric across Europe, the population is increasingly confronted with disinformation. The information war is being waged particularly on social media, with the construction of distorted or simply fabricated narratives.
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