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Government has emphasised the importance of media in sharing credible information with the public Government Communication and Information System (GCIS) Director General, Phumla Williams, said in a statement on Monday. “In an era of instant information sharing, as well as the COVID-19 pandemic, the need for trustworthy and fact-checked news for public good is crucial”. Williams made her comments as government joins the rest of the world in commemorating World Press Freedom Day under the the...

| May 3, 2021 We announce the Malawi MFC on a day that media around the world celebrate the advances and take stock of the challenges remaining in the spirit of solidarity that unites our profession. Statement of the Malawi MFC, 3rd May 2021:     “As Malawi joins the rest of the world in commemorating World Press Freedom Day, WAN-IFRA would like to announce the birth of Malawi’s Media Freedom Committee (MFC). The establishment of MFC Malawi brings to nine the number of such Committe...

news Press Freedom Day 2021: Autocratic leaders are muzzling the media citing ‘fake news’, Covid and national security © Hong Kong Free Press Today is World Press Freedom Day. It is a day to mark the importance of freedom of the press and governments’ duty to uphold and respect the right of freedom of expression enshrined in Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights from 1948. This year also marks the 30th Anniversary of the Windhoek Declaration for the Development of a Fr...

Share Roy Gutterman Roy Gutterman, associate professor of newspaper and online journalism and director of the Tully Center for Free Speech in the Newhouse School, wrote an op-ed for Syracuse.com: “Assaults on press freedom, here and abroad, endanger democracy.” Gutterman is an expert on communications law and the First Amendment. Gutterman writes that in 1991, a group of international journalists and press freedom activists joined together to write the Declaration of Windhoek on Promo...

Press freedom in Kenya: Precarious at best As World Press Freedom Day is marked around the globe, the challenges Kenyas journalists face include physical attacks, as a DW correspondent recently experienced. Kenya ranks 102 on the 2021 World Press Freedom Index. Kenya is home to more than 200 community radio stations, more than a hundred newspapers and magazines as well as dozens of television stations, in addition to online broadcasts and blogs. Journalists in the country are highly educated, a...

Thirty years ago, between April 29 and May 3, 1991, some African journalists converged on Windhoek, Namibia to ponder the role of a free, independent and pluralistic media in the light of the constant pressures and violence faced by media professionals working in Africa at the time. The conference, titled, ‘Promoting an Independent and Pluralistic African Media,’ was held at the instance of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) in partnership with oth...

Editorial: Spreading information for public good

Liberia: Deputy Speaker Arrives in Barclayville ahead of World Press Freedom Day Celebration Liberia: Deputy Speaker Arrives in Barclayville ahead of World Press Freedom Day Celebration Share The Grand Kru County District #2 Representative will speak on the role of a free, independent and pluralistic media in light of the constant pressures and violence faced by media professionals. BARCLAYVILLE, Grand Kru County — The Deputy Speaker of the 54th Legislature and Grand Kru County District #2 Re...

Media lobby organisation, Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe (VMCZ) yesterday said a continued media violations in the country was

Graphic Online BY: Kweku Zurek 705 Representatives of the world media have converged on Windhoek, Namibia, to commemorate this years World Press Freedom Day (WPFD). This year’s commemoration marks the 30th anniversary of the Windhoek Declaration, developed by African journalists who pressed for a free, independent and pluralistic African press at a seminar organised by the UN and UNESCO in Windhoek in 1991. The declaration also triggered the proclamation of May 3 as World Press Freedom Day b...