The Afghan Journalists Who Stayed
Life as a female journalist has always been tough, Habib says, but it’s too important a role to abandon.
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Life as a female journalist has always been tough, Habib says, but it’s too important a role to abandon.
Taking risks and facing threats, they’re keeping Afghanistan’s decimated media alive.
Autocratic governments increasingly seek to intimidate the news media into silence. Russia, for example, moved quickly to shut down factual news coverage. Nicaragua’s crackdown chases many journalists into exile. How do authorities attempt to control media coverage, and do governments use...
English December 31, 2020 01:14 AM Sorry, but your browser cannot support embedded video of this type, you can download this video to view it offline. Download File This program has ended and is being processed for playback. In a year of declining press freedom amid the global pandemic, China took the lead in media repression. The world’s leading jailer of journalists censored and arrested those covering COVID-19, delayed visas and imposed restrictions on Chinese nationals working for foreign press outlets and introduced a national security law in Hong Kong that author...