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*Its role is to bring local media professionals together to find common solutions. In celebrating World Press Freedom Day today, May 3, Malawi Media Freedom Committee has been accepted as a chapter for World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) — a regional and global network of media professionals which is committed to standing for quality journalism and press freedom while respecting diversity and plurality of voices. Malawi Media Freedom Committee was formed some weeks ago at the sugg...

World Press Freedom Day: Bilawal Bhutto calls for lifting curbs on media By Bilawal Bhutto issues statement on World Press Freedom Day. Says PTI government is gagging media to hide its illegitimacy and incompetence. Expresses concern on drop of Pakistans ranking on Press Freedom Index. ISLAMABAD: PPP chairperson Bilawal Bhutto says that press freedom in the country has been chained with threats, intimidation, and pressure tactics by the PTI regime. He called for lifting the declared and unde...

Journalism, the only vaccine against disinformation 03/05/2021 - 08:45 News stories Over the past year, there was a “dramatic deterioration in peoples access to information and an increase in obstacles to news coverage”, according to Reporters Without Borders. 78 journalists have been killed since 2020. World Press Freedom Day pays tribute   While health workers were struggling with the pandemic over the past year, journalists around the world faced another challenge ...

In the lead-up to World Press Freedom Day on Monday, 3 May, Amnesty International has been gathering messages of support for the people of Myanmar. The country’s military shut down the internet months ago, but local news publications have kept information flowing using radio and satellite.  Amnesty International will broadcast messages of support sent from around the world “to tell the people of Myanmar we have not forgotten about them”. Use the hashtag #MyanmarNeverSilenced on social m...

Home | News & Events | U.S. Embassy Monrovia Celebrates World Press Freedom Day The U.S. Embassy celebrates World Press Freedom Day today, May 3, because an independent media is an essential pillar of responsive and accountable democracies.  Journalism plays a crucial role in combatting corruption, drawing attention to human rights abuses, and providing the public with accurate information. On May 3, 1991, a group of African journalists and media professionals attending a conference in ...

“Information is a public good. […] and as a public good, it needs public support.” ~ Joseph E. Stiglitz Today marks 30 years since the signing of the landmark Declaration of Windhoek on  Promoting an  Independent and Pluralistic African Press in Namibia. The theme for 2021 is ‘Information as a Public Good’. As the United Nations points out, the Declaration was originally signed with the aim of making the free flow of information a public good. Thirty years on and we “now have in...

Statement by Media Freedom Coalition on World Press Freedom Day 3. May 2021 - 13:32 Today, on World Press Freedom Day and the 30th anniversary of the adoption of the Windhoek Declaration, we celebrate the fundamental principles of media freedom and stand together for its protection around the world.   The Windhoek Declaration is a historic call for media freedom. It upholds this freedom as a crucial component of the right to freedom of expression, as enshrined by Article 19 of the Universal D...

Graphic Online BY: Rosalind K. Amoh 30.5k Shares 705 An awards ceremony and adoption of a communique will climax this year’s global commemoration of World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) in Windhoek, Namibia, today. The climax follows six days of deliberations by journalists representing various countries and other stakeholders who have convened in the Namibian capital to commemorate this year’s event and also mark the 30th anniversary of the WPFD. To be known as the Windhoek + 30 Declaration, th...

Gabby jabs political leader who blocks disagreeable followers on social media but condemns others on WPFD LISTEN 4 HOURS AGO Gabby Asare Otchere Darko, a leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said there is a political leader who is quick to block ‘disagreeable’ followers on his social media handles and yet always the first to condemn others on World Press Freedom Day. In a tweet to mark the World Press Freedom Day celebration on Monday, May 3, the Publisher of the Daily Stat...

Eric Naki As we commemorate World Press Freedom Day, several anti-press freedom elements have begun to proliferate, with some of the countrys top politicians leading the charge. Picture: iStock On the 30th anniversary celebration of World Press Freedom Day declared by the UN , the surveillance of journalists and harassment of rep...