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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) wants the Competition Commission to impose an unassailable obligation on Google, Meta and X to give more prominence to trustworthy news content on their platforms.
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Reporters Without Borders wants big techs to give more prominence to trustworthy news content on platforms

The media freedom group said a provisional report by the Competition Commission in February ‘clearly recognises journalism’s value in the content circulating on online platforms’

Cameroon a dangerous place to be a journalist

The body of Martinez Zogo, a critic of private and public transgressions, was found five days after he disappeared, showing signs of torture

Jeffrey Moyo poses for a portrait outside the Tredgold court before his trial on January 11, 2022, in Bulawayo. Zimbabwe

‘I was jailed for doing journalism – and the nightmare is not over’

Eight months ago, the Zimbabwean government arrested Jeffrey Moyo after he worked with colleagues from The New York Times reporting on Zimbabwe. His next court date is 14 February

Changes in news consumption practices and in the information ecosystem have hit newspapers hard

Call for a New Deal for Journalism to strengthen democracy

Changes in news consumption practices and in the information ecosystem have hit newspapers hard

Journalists throughout Southern and East Africa are harassed, detained mostly through the use of criminal law. Photo: File

World Press Freedom Day: When journalism is threatened, democracy is at stake

Governments, philanthropists, Big Tech, readers and media houses themselves must work together to ensure the sustainability of the media ecosystem

Besides the libel case, Ressa and Rappler have been hit with 10 other criminal charges over the past year, prompting allegations that authorities are targeting her and her team for their work. (Sean Zanni/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

Trial opens for Philippine journalist critical of Duterte

Ressa is out on bail and faces years in prison if convicted under the criminal cyber-libel law

Changes in news consumption practices and in the information ecosystem have hit newspapers hard

South Sudan’s independent media under pressure

Eight years after independence, South Sudan still struggles to address media challenges. Independent journalists continue to fear for their freedom

South Africa has dropped to number 31 out of 180 countries surveyed in the 2019 World Press Freedom Index. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

SA drops in World Press Freedom rankings

South Africa has dropped three places in the Press Freedom Index

Sindiso Magaqa was a proportional representation councillor at Umzimkhulu Local Municipality when he was ambushed and shot. File photo by Gallo

Media watchdog condemns ‘yellow vest’ attacks on journalists

Overnight Friday protesters had blocked the printing centre of the L’Yonne Republicaine newspaper

Daily Trust CEO and editor-in-chief Mannir Dan-Ali (above) says Uthman Abubakar was courteously treated. (Screenshot courtesy of Daily Trust)

Nigerian journalists released

Staffers from the Daily Trust newspaper released following military raid on Sunday

Violence against women has also been widespread in Bulgaria, and the Bulgarian Helsinki Committee rights group said 19 women have already been killed in the country so far this year as a result of abuse. (AFP)

Germany arrests suspect over killing of Bulgarian journalist

Authorities say Viktoria Marinova died from blows to the head and suffocation

Viktoria Marinova worked for a popular local TV station, TVN. (AFP)

Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova murdered

Viktoria Marinova is the third high-profile journalist to be killed in the European Union in the past year, and the fourth since the start of 2017

Since 1999

The World Cup of press freedom

Rather than accepting the competition that comes with pluralism, the Kremlin is intent on rigging the rules of politics

Afghan journalists are seen after a second blast in Kabul

Afghan media defiant after deadly day for journalists

Journalists have vowed to continue reporting after the deadliest attack on Afghanistan’s media since the fall of the Taliban in 2001

Journalists in the Himalayan nation do still face intimidation and arrest

Nepal newspaper due in court for case slammed as press freedom attack

The newspaper was subpoenaed on contempt of court charges for articles which implied that the chief justice wanted to hold office for longer

In an unprecedented show of support, five members of the DA caucus in the Cape Town council resigned in support of Patricia de Lille. (Gallo)

Sudan papers go online for freedom from censors

Media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) ranked Sudan 174th out of 180 countries on its 2017 world press freedom index.

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Algeria’s independent press fears for its survival

Algeria’s "democratic spring" that followed widespread protests in October 1988 put an end to a state monopoly of the media.

Biya’s repeated long absences from Cameroon, mostly in Switzerland or in his home village in southern Cameroon, have been bitterly criticised. (Patrick Kovarik/AFP/Getty)

Cameroon has lashed out at international thinktank over warning on anglophones

In a statement, a government spokesman hit out at reports published by ICG that criticised a crackdown in the two English-speaking regions.

66 journalists killed as attacks grow more barbaric

Reporters Without Borders says attacks on journalists have grown more barbaric and kidnappings have soared with 66 deaths being reported this year.

Press freedom is so lacking in Mexico that it currently sits at position 153 out of 179 on the Reporters Without Borders’ Press Freedom Index. (AFP)

Mexico is no mentor for SA press, Mr President

President Jacob Zuma held up Mexico as an example of the reporting South African news organisations should strive for. But what does that mean?