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ROME, May 01 (IPS) - Journalism is in crisis, again. The challenges to press freedom are enormous and multi-faceted and they are deepening -- in “free” and open societies as well as autocracies. And there are no simple solutions.

Niger's press law has been completely sidelined with journalist Soumana Idrissa Maïga facing the threat of a lengthy prison sentence if convicted.

Are your eclipse glasses still lying around your house? Don't throw them away. Here's what you can do with them instead.

The challenge of upholding this essential pillar of democracy is stark, in Gaza and beyond

This is the first compulsory license ever issued by the Colombian government for the Ministry of Health to use, and it is expected to ensure safer and better treatment for thousands of people, many of whom are migrants.

If we criminalise, dismiss, or sideline journalism that tells inconvenient truths, we will destroy our capacity for sensible public debate. 

Reporters Without Borders and Amnesty International have called for the release of four journalists detained in the provinces of Khost and Ghazni.

The Superior Council of Communication (CSC) of Burkina Faso said in a statement on Sunday that it had suspended several more international news outlets for covering a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report a...

Burkina Faso suspends international media outlets indefinitely for reporting army atrocities, rejecting Human Rights Watch's accusations.

Stakeholders have been urged to join hands for helping exiled Afghan journalists deal with current humanitarian challenges.