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One News Creator’s Guide on Profitable Newsletters

  • The Fix
  • Priyal Shah and Sham Jaff

Newsletters are an effective way to establish a direct contact with your audience, unmitigated by the whims of social media algorithms. For individual journalists, newsletters can be a profitable option to share their work with their readers. But how?

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Russian Exiles Report Canceled ID Cards

  • Deutsche Welle
  • Alexey Strelnikov, Sergey Dik

Opponents of Russia’s war against Ukraine are discovering that their government ID cards have been canceled since they fled Russia. Deutsche Welle spoke to those affected.

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‘We cannot become Ukrainian journalists’

  • LRT
  • Benas Gerdžiūnas

TV Rain’s editor-in-chief Tikhon Dzyadko talks about stereotypes surrounding Russian journalists in exile and what marks them different from their colleagues in the Baltic states and Ukraine.

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Georgia: A Crisis Point For Press Freedom

  • European Centre for Press and Media Freedom

In Spring 2024, a delegation from the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) conducted a press freedom fact-finding mission to Tbilisi, Georgia as part of a project funded by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Today, ECPMF publishes a report detailing the findings of the mission, which paint a picture of independent media in the midst of an existential crisis.

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Exiled Cuban Journalist Faces Threats Across Borders

  • Columbia Journalism Review
  • Joel Simon

When forcing journalists into exile fails to silence them, authoritarian governments turn to transnational repression. Read here how Cuban repression has followed editor José Jasán Nieves Cárdenas to the United States.

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Why Exiled Journalists From Latin America Require More Support

  • IJNet
  • Silvia Higuera

At least 300 journalists have fled Nicaragua, Ecuador and Guatemala and gone into exile in recent years, according to various press freedom organizations. Numbers from Venezuela are unavailable, but that country has experienced a mass exodus of millions, including journalists.

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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.

“His Death Is on Tokayev’s Conscience”

  • Meduza | Mediazona Central Asia
  • Azamat Akhmetov and Sam Breazeale

On June 18, 2024, Kazakhstani opposition journalist Aidos Sadykov, who received political asylum in Ukraine 10 years ago, was shot outside of his Kyiv apartment. Meduza shares an abridged translation of a report by Mediazona Central Asia on who Sadykov was, why he was forced into exile, and what we know about his murder.

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Advice for Journalists Forced Into Exile

  • IJNet
  • Sofia Heartney

From Afghanistan and Russia, to Venezuela, Eritrea and beyond, journalists globally have fled – and continue to flee – threats to their lives and livelihoods under authoritarian regimes. Entire newsrooms in these contexts, too, have shuttered operations to avoid imminent danger to their employees and financial ruin.

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Press Freedom in Hong Kong

  • Reporters Without Borders

Four years after the enactment of a draconian national security law – a turning point in the decline of press freedom in Hong Kong – Reporters Without Borders (RSF) takes a closer look at the plight of exiled journalists and calls for greater support for their diaspora-led media.

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The Inside Story: A Free Press Matters

  • Voice of America
  • Jessica Jerreat

With conflict, repression and censorship driving large numbers of media into exile, VOA spoke with journalists on the front lines: from navigating gang violence in Ecuador, assassination plots targeting Iranian journalists on British and U.S. soil, and repressive policies affecting Afghan media.

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Our Wonderful Past: Media Capture and Exiled Journalism

  • JAM e.V.

This documentary explores the systematic suppression of media and freedom of expression by authoritarian regimes in Russia, Turkey, and Belarus and the state of exiled journalism – through interviews with journalists, who risk their lives to uphold the truth.

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When Governments Chase Journalists in Exile

  • Journalisten und Anwälte für Meinungsfreiheit (JAM) e.V.
  • Evin Barış Altıntaş

At least 26 governments have targeted journalists abroad, according to Freedom House, which has identified 112 incidents against journalists from 2014 to 2023, including assault, detention, unlawful deportation, rendition, and assassination. For some journalists, leaving the country might not always guarantee safety.

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Forced to Flee: Increasing Numbers of Journalists in Exile

  • Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
  • Lucy Westcott

Threats, repression, conflict, and unrest: across the world, these and other factors are pushing journalists into exile in record numbers. In a striking development, exiled or soon-to-be exiled journalists now make up more than half of the people CPJ assists. While exile is a global issue, three countries — Russia, Iran, and Afghanistan — stand out as places from which journalists flee only to face further insecurity. Below, find case studies on each country.

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Digital News Report 2024

  • Reuters Institute

The 2024 Digital News Report Reuters Institute reveals new findings about the consumption of online news globally. It is based on a YouGov survey of more than 95,000 people in 47 countries representing half of the world’s population. The report looks at the growing importance of platforms in news consumption and production, including more visual and video-led social media such as TikTok, Instagram and YouTube.

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Drug-related Violence Fuels an Exodus of Ecuador’s Press

  • Committee to Protect Journalists
  • John Otis

On the only radio station in the remote Ecuadorian town of Baeza, morning show host Juan Carlos Tito updates listeners on the weather, recent power outages, and repairs to a bridge spanning a nearby river. For the last 24 years, Tito, 53, has been the trusted voice of Radio Selva, broadcasting important community news to this town of 2,000 in the Andean highlands. But now, Tito’s voice is beamed into Baeza from abroad.

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Ethiopian Journalists Struggle in Exile

  • Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)

Ethiopian journalist Belete Kassa fled the country after his colleague Belaye Manaye was detained in a desert military camp. As crackdowns on the press escalate, dozens of Ethiopian journalists face exile, harassment, and threats.

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