| 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:
âAs Malawi joins the rest of the world in commemorating World Press Freedom Day, WAN-IFRA would like to announce the birth of Malawiâs Media Freedom Committee (MFC). The establishment of MFC Malawi brings to nine the number of such Committees in Africa and 20 in the world. Malawi joins the MFC family together with new Committees in Zimbabwe, Rwanda and Tanzania.
| April 30, 2021
As we mark 3 May, World Press Freedom Day media across the globe are fighting threats both existential and immediate. The COVID-19 health pandemic has exacerbated, and in many instances accelerated challenges familiar to media owners, editors and journalists everywhere. The dilemma for an industry shrinking by the day and fast running out of money is that the biggest, most unavoidable cost is the journalism that, by its very essence, defines it.
Above all, COVID-19 has forced questions around the economic model and how media are financed front and centre for everyone with even just a passing interest in how news is produced. The insecurities that have been corroding the industry for over two decades are now circulating wildly and devastating newsrooms and boardrooms worldwide.
MI Lawmaker Caught Spreading Falsehoods Introduces Bills to Punish Fact Checkers
Michigan State Rep. Matt Maddock is a lead sponsor of legislation that would require fact checkers to register with the state and face possible fines for improper findings.
Michigan House Republicans
Michigan state Republican lawmakers introduced legislation on Tuesday that would require news organizations that produce fact-checked articles to register with the state. Under the legislation, if state officials deem facts within the reporting to be untrue, the organization would be subject to fines.
House Bills 4813 and 4814 would apply to news organizations and websites that are part of the International Fact-Checking Network, created by the Poynter Institute, an organization that is dedicated to improving journalism and is attempting to connect fact checkers from around the world through the network.
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The notorious self-acclaimed journalist organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) released its annual press freedom index in April. Not surprisingly, this neither authoritative nor professional group, having frequently showed the public its anti-China stance, ranked China fourth from the bottom. On May 3, the 30th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day, Cedric Alviani, head of RSF s East Asia Bureau, reportedly openly smeared China as the worst enemy of freedom of the press and expression.
It is obvious that the ranking of press freedom done by this group, which is a very subjective and conjectural one, is entirely based on the political preferences of the founder, a far-right person, said Li Haidong, a professor at the Institute of International Relations at China Foreign Affairs University.
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