Translated by Marisol Chavez. Read in English. La violencia volvió a sacudir las calles de El Salvador a finales de marzo. Con 87 asesinatos indiscriminados, las pandillas del país enviaron un mensaje a la presidencia de Nayib Bukele … Read more
Leer en español. Violence shook El Salvador’s streets yet again in late March. With 87 random murders, the country’s gangs sent a message to the administration of President Nayib Bukele in response to what they saw as a betrayal. Read more
From a distance, and on paper, Ghana is a thriving democracy in a region beset with political and social turmoil. The country’s 1992 constitution has an entire chapter dedicated to freedom of the press, and three years ago on March … Read more
On Nov. 21, 2021, my colleague at investigative news magazine Frontier Myanmar, Zar, wiped her laptop and phone of all data and packed them into a single bag with a few other belongings, then headed for Yangon International … Read more
Every time a reporter is killed, his or her death explodes in the hearts of the country’s other journalists — like an earthquake with expanding effect. It doesn’t matter whether they knew the victim or not. Each murder … Read more
“Please never go into the Amazon rainforest again.” The message blinked on my phone right after the news of the disappearance of British journalist Dom Phillips started coming out. Phillips was working on a book in … Read more
When Reporters Without Borders released its latest World Press Freedom Index in May, the findings were grim: In more than 130 countries, the situation for journalists was classified as being “problematic” or worse, and the number of countries … Read more
In the early morning of Oct. 3, 2021, Amer Ayed, a Tunisian journalist and TV presenter at Zitouna TV, was sleeping when police circled his home in the city of Monastir and dragged him in for questioning. “They scared my … Read more
A day after Ferdinand Marcos Jr. was proclaimed president of the Philippines on May 25, he granted an interview to only three reporters while his spokesperson faced the rest of the media that day. Two of the … Read more
Not long after Turkish lawmakers aligned with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s administration presented the parliament with a bill to criminalize disinformation in late May, a new wave of arrests targeting journalists was launched, underlining the government’s multi-pronged attempt to monopolize … Read more
