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The Digital Fabric of Exile Journalism in the MENA Region

  • ARIJ Network

How are exiled and hybrid outlets building resilient digitally-enabled outlets? How can these networks be more active in shaping the norms and policies that will shape the digital environment they increasingly depend upon? This lightening-talk panel presents results from CIMA research and a side-line discussion hosted at the ARIJ forum.

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Funding Crackdown Imperils Global Newsrooms

  • The New York Times
  • Ken Bensinger & Benjamin Mullin

Ken Bensinger and Benjamin Mullin report for The New York Times on how exiled investigative journalists worldwide are struggling after a sudden cut in U.S. government funding, causing financial instability and uncertainty for many independent newsrooms.

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Policymakers Must Protect Journalists from Spyware

  • Tech Policy Press
  • Sheila B. Lalwani

A new comprehensive article by researcher Sheila B. Lalwani exposes how spyware is increasingly being used to target journalists worldwide, including those in exile. This growing digital threat fuels concerns about surveillance, self-censorship, and the further erosion of press freedom.

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Syrian Media After Assad

  • NiemanReports
  • Lina Chawaf

Lina Chawaf, founder of Radio Rozana, reflects on Syria’s uncertain future after Assad’s fall. While celebrating his ousting, she voices concerns about the new Islamist regime’s media stance. Her team continues reporting despite risks, navigating a volatile landscape for independent journalism.

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Exiled Expression: Root Causes and Impacts

  • ifex
  • Laura Vidal, Reyhana Masters

Reyhana Masters and Laura Vidal examine how this global scourge is impacting the African and Latin America/Caribbean regions, the specific threat landscape for women journalists, and how those forced to flee can be better supported.

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The Global Directory of Journalist Safety Trainers and Advisors

  • acos Alliance

The Global Directory of Journalist Safety Trainers & Advisors is a searchable database of security professionals with experience and expertise in journalist safety. It has been created to provide the ACOS Alliance community with direct access to safety trainers and advisors around the world, and to help them connect with those who meet specific geographic and thematic safety needs.

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Bellingcat’s New Online Investigations Toolkit

  • Bellingcat
  • Johanna Wild

Have you ever struggled to find a tool that does exactly what you need? You are not alone. More than 80 percent of open source researchers that participated in two Bellingcat surveys indicated that finding the right tools can be challenging. This is where Bellingcat’s new Online Investigations Toolkit comes in.

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Media in Exile is Defeating Censorship in Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela

  • Cinfidencial
  • Carlos F. Chamorro

Journalists in exile from Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela continue to resist authoritarian censorship despite extreme repression. Awarded the IAPA’s Grand Prize for Press Freedom, they highlight the challenges and innovations necessary to sustain independent journalism amid growing threats.

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Exiled Turkish Journalist Leaves Sweden After Attack

  • Stockholm Center for Freedom

Ahmet Dönmez, a Turkish journalist living in exile in Sweden, said in an interview with the Journalisten news website that he left the country for the United States some two years after surviving a brutal attack in Stockholm. Dönmez had narrowly escaped death after being severely beaten in a suburb of Stockholm in March 2022.

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Turkey: Exiled Journalist Reveals State-Politics-Relations

  • Turkish Minute

Can Dündar, a Turkish journalist and author living in exile, has uncovered shady relations between the deep state and politicians in Turkey based on the narratives from a series of videos released by notorious Turkish mafia boss Sedat Peker in 2021.

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What’s Next for Investigative Journalism in Latin America

  • IJNet
  • Andrea Arzaba, Ana Beatriz Assam

The investigative beat has never been an easy one in Latin America. From reporting under authoritarian regimes to confronting significant security risks in a region that faces the added challenge of impunity, and from the difficulties of reporting amidst persistent financial struggles to handling the backlash that comes with exposing acts of corruption — the circumstances facing reporters have long been challenging.

How Dev.by Stays Afloat as an Independent Publisher

  • The Fix
  • Tatsiana Ashurkevich

One of the Belarusian media outlets that has survived in exile is Dev.by, a publisher dedicated to the IT industry in Belarus and the world, producing news, interviews, reports, and analytics. The organisation operates in spite of constant threats and lack of funding. Dev.by’s CEO and founder Artiom Kontsevoi shared with The Fix how they manage to operate in such unstable conditions.

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On the Run

    Thousands of journalists around the world have had to seek exile in other countries in recent years amidst rising political repression, an independent United Nations investigator, Irene Khan, told the global body’s General Assembly in a report last week. Ms Khan’s findings shine a worrying light on the state of the world that all countries, especially democracies, need to reflect on and address.

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    Who Is Telling Eritrea’s Stories?

    • IJNet
    • Aurora Martínez

    Since 1993, Eritrea’s regime has suppressed media and freedom of expression. Exiled journalists defy censorship to inform their fellow citizens and keep independent reporting alive. IJNet puts some of them in the spotlight.

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    Exiled, Then Spied On

    • accessnow

    Following last year’s joint investigation into the use of NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware against Galina Timchenko, co-founder, CEO, and publisher of Meduza, Access Now, the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy at the University of Toronto (“the Citizen Lab”), and independent digital security expert Nikolai Kvantiliani have uncovered how at least seven more Russian, Belarusian, Latvian, and Israeli journalists and activists have been targeted with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware within the EU.

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    Journalists’ Digital Survival Guide

    • IJNet
    • Gyan Prakash Tripathi

    Journalism has moved online, exposing journalists to targeted attacks and surveillance. This guide helps building digital armor, protecting data, sources, and critical work in an evolving digital landscape.

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