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Launched on World Press Freedom Day, BETC s innovative prints raise awareness for journalist Maria Ressa who faces lifetime imprisonment in the Philippines
On World Press Freedom Day 2021, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the #HoldTheLine coalition have launched an innovative campaign of solidarity with journalist Maria Ressa, who faces a possible lifetime in prison in the Philippines. A new website features hundreds of videos from prominent supporters around the world - with a call for public contributions - that will stream on a continuous loop until all charges are dropped against Ressa and the media outlet Rappler.
Activities commemorating the 30th anniversary of the landmark conference in Africa that gave birth to the idea and resulted in the UN declaring May 3 as World Press Freedom Day (WPFD), are well underway in the city where it all began, Windhoek, Namibia.
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It has not been an easy year for journalists, journalism and press freedom in Southeast Asia. The already difficult condition for news organization has been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Hundreds of journalists across the region have lost their jobs as news outlets’ revenue continue to decline and many more suffered pay-cuts with no job security. UNESCO also highlighted the widespread harassment and intimidation of women journalists online in a new report entitled “The Chilling” launched in conjunction with World Press Freedom Day in 2021.
Yet against these odds, journalists, media workers, and press freedom advocates have come together once again in solidarity on this 3 May to commemorate World Press Freedom Day with the global theme “Information as a Public Good.”
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UNESCO releases pioneering discussion paper on online violence against women journalists
The 30 April online panel, moderated by Kenyan investigative journalist Catherine Gicheru, brought together celebrated journalists and experts to discuss the findings presented by ICFJ Global Director of Research Dr Julie Posetti (Australia).
The laureate of the 2021 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, Maria Ressa (CEO of Filipino news website Rappler), and the US NBC journalist Brandy Zadrozny, testified that the intense online harassment they recently went through was a response to their investigations into disinformation and populist networks.
The goal is to impose silence, to manufacture consensus and to seed metanarratives such as ‘this journalist is a criminal’… Tearing down my credibility is a way to attack the media I founded.
Filipino Journalist Maria Ressa Receives UNESCO Award, Questions Big Tech s Impunity
She accused Silicon Valley giants like Facebook of actively facilitating the propaganda machine that attacks and suppresses criticism.
Maria Ressa. Photo: Reuters
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New Delhi: Prominent Filipino journalist Maria Ressa on Monday targeted not just the Philippines government for their anti-democratic acts targeting the media but also accused Silicon Valley giants like Facebook of actively facilitating the propaganda machine that attacks and suppresses criticism.
Through a video link, Ressa, head of a Filipino investigative news website,
In her acceptance speech, Ressa reminded the audience that she could not travel outside the Philippines due to restrictions put by courts in legal cases filed against her by the government. In the last two years, ten arrest warrants have been issued against her. She was arrested twice in 2019.