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Trump’s Foreign Aid Freeze Throws Global Journalism into Chaos

  • RSF

President Donald Trump has frozen billions of dollars around the world in aid projects, including over $268 million allocated by Congress to support independent media and the free flow of information. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) denounces this decision, which has plunged NGOs, media outlets, and journalists doing vital work into chaotic uncertainty.

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‘Nicaragua Has Become a Terrorist State’

  • IPS
  • Wendy Quintero Chávez & Lucía Pineda Ubau

Journalists Wendy Quintero Chávez and Lucía Pineda Ubau shed light on the harsh realities of systemic torture, rigged elections, and the fight for press freedom in Nicaragua. Since 2018, over 350 lives have been lost, 56 media outlets banned, and 900+ exiled. Despite facing threats and violence, they continue to fight for truth and the right to report freely, even from exile.

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Flight and Fight: Supporting Journalists in Exile

    The issue of exiled journalists goes beyond individual stories of courage. It strikes at the heart of human rights. Journalists are in exile because their most basic human rights—particularly the right to freedom of expression—are being systematically denied. These are not isolated incidents; they are symptoms of broader failures to uphold international norms and hold oppressive regimes accountable.

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    Nicaragua’s Proposed Media Reform

    • Voice of America
    • Graham Keeley

    Nicaragua is expected to rubber stamp a change to its constitution in January that alters presidential power and increases state control over media. If ratified, the change would mandate that the state has power to ensure media outlets and platforms are not “subject to foreign interests and do not spread false news.”

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    Azerbaijan: Authorities are Targeting Journalists

    • GlobalVoices
    • Arzu Geybullayeva

    Azerbaijan’s press freedom crisis deepens as six Meydan TV journalists face smuggling charges and four-month detention. Arrests align with a broader crackdown targeting opposition media, activists, and politicians, raising alarm over escalating repression in Baku.

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    Tajikistan’s Journalists In Exile

    • OCCRP
    • Muhamadjon Kabirov and Firuzi Makhmadali

    The repressive Central Asian nation has never been an easy place to be a journalist. But a notorious crackdown on peaceful protesters in 2022 took a bad situation and made it worse, sending some journalists to jail and others into exile.

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    RSF’s 2024 Round-up

    • RSF

    The Reporters Without Borders (RSF) 2024 Round-up reveals an alarming intensification of attacks on journalists — especially in conflict zones, where over half of the news professionals who lost their lives this year perished.

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    Syria: “I Haven’t Cried So Much in so Long”

    • CNN

    At the start of the Syrian civil war, citizen journalist Rami Jarrah picked up a camera to document Assad government atrocities. He says, “We’ve been given our country back, and we have the opportunity now to build it.”

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    Newsrooms Fight Back Against Criminalization

    • Nieman Lab
    • José Zamora

    In 2025, attacks on journalists are set to escalate. A disturbing global trend continues to expand: the use of criminal law to silence journalists. This tactic, perfected by authoritarian regimes in places like Nicaragua, Venezuela, Russia, China, and the Philippines, is now spreading worldwide.

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    Exiled from Myanmar, Journalists Fear New Thai Law

    • Voice of America
    • Tommy Walker

    Exiled Myanmar journalists in Thailand are facing new threats: A proposed law could force nonprofits to shut down, silencing vital independent reporting and paving the way for disinformation to dominate.

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    Arrest Warrant for Guatemalan Journalist Viewed as Retaliatory

    • Voice of America
    • Jocelyn Mintz

    Juan Luis Font, director and host of the daily radio talk show “ConCriterio” and a co-founder of El Periodico newspaper in Guatemala, is accused of collusion and bribery, charges he denies. The journalist, who lives in exile in France, told VOA he expected that a warrant would be issued because of his stories on corruption.

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    From Newsroom To Exile

    • Migrant Women Press
    • Malini Chakrabarty

    Exiled journalist Malini Chakrabarty reflects on her journey from India to Scotland, navigating threats, sexism, and racism while fighting for truth and equality. Her story underscores the resilience of women journalists worldwide.

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    Exiled Azerbaijani Journalist Exposes Media Crackdown

    • Democracy Now!
    • Amy Goodman, Leyla Mustafayeva

    Ahead of the COP29 U.N. climate summit in Azerbaijan, the government has escalated its attacks on press freedom, jailing six journalists from the independent outlet Abzas Media on dubious charges since last November. Speaking from exile in Berlin, acting editor-in-chief Leyla Mustafayeva calls it a “total crackdown on Azerbaijani media.”

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    African Investigative Journalism Is Meeting the Moment

    • Global Investigative Journalism Network
    • Benon Herbert Oluka and Maxime Koami Domegni

    Investigative journalists in Africa have to bear many blows — from repressive governments, corporations trying to silence them, travel and visa restrictions, physical attacks, lawsuits such as SLAPPs, limited funding, and skill and training gaps. Still, they have found ways to overcome those challenges.

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    A Mental Health Guide for Journalists Facing Online Violence

    • International Women’s Media Foundation

    Online violence is often only considered a digital safety issue, but the impact of online abuse on journalists’ mental health is significant and has serious consequences for them, their work, and for press freedom. This is particularly true for women and diverse journalists who are disproportionately targeted by online attacks.

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    Documentary Captures Harassment of Cuban Journalist

    • Voice of America
    • Graham Keeley

    The personal and painful reality of life under surveillance is documented in a new film that follows an independent Cuban journalist’s flight into exile. After tough questioning by Cuban police, Abraham Jimenez Enoa relates his ordeal on camera.