Multiple US Officials Confronted About US Assange Hypocrisy On World Press Freedom Day

Wednesday was World Press Freedom Day, and it saw US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, and Deputy State Department Spokesman Vedant Patel confronted…

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MDIF Chief of Staff Meredith Moloughney spoke at a #WorldPressFreedomDay side event where she and other experts discussed to what extent it makes sense to keep #media companies in developing countries afloat through direct financial support.

#mediadev #wpfd2023 #mediabiz

https://www.dw.com/en/can-journalism-still-be-saved/a-65575886

Can journalism still be saved? | DW | 10.05.2023

At World Press Freedom Day in New York, DW Akademie and other leading media development organizations debated "radical approaches to saving journalism." As it turns out, there are at least a few glimmers of hope.

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RT @APC_News: “In Latin America, many proposed solutions may cause more harm than good, failing to actually address the root causes.” @DonJC @derechosdigital called attention to the risks of rushed legal solutions to address the complex challenges of #GenderedDisinformation.

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RT @APC_News: On World Press Freedom Day, let's share some highlights from our session on #FreedomofExpression and #GenderJustice. Thread

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RT @boell_eu: 🟢 Today is #WorldPressFreedomDay 🎙️📺📻🗞️🆓
Join @laurentrichard0 @HNeumannMEP @telloglou & @JanAlbrecht online at 5pm CEST - "Wiretapped: Combatting the use of #spyware & #surveillance against #journalists" ➡️ https://calendar.boell.de/en/event/wiretapped-combatting-use-spyware-and-surveillance-against-journalists
#WPFD2023 #MediaFreedom @BoellStiftung https://t.co/a1bQjaeyXU

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/HNeumannMEP/status/1653698437806735361

Wiretapped: Combatting the Use of Spyware and Surveillance Against Journalists

Almost two years ago in July 2021, Forbidden Stories, a network of journalists led by investigative reporters Sandrine Rigaud and Laurent Richard together with Amnesty International, uncovered the largest surveillance scandal in recent history. With the help of a new kind of spyware called "Pegasus", manufactured and distributed by the Israeli NSO Group, phones of victims could be spied on, location data could be retrieved, messages read, and conversations intercepted.

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This is such a remarkable and extremely important undertaking, made more significant because it was launched in time for #WPFD2023.

Kudos to the signatories and to @PCIJdotOrg for initiating this. ❤️🙏🏽

Philippine media’s pledge to promote human rights https://pcij.org/article/10093/philippine-media-pledge-to-promote-human-rights

Philippine media’s pledge to promote human rights

Journalism is not a crime.

Journalists are the immune system of nations, shedding light on fraud, waste & abuses of power, arming publics with the information we need to be self-governing.

A free press is a pillar of democracy, not its enemy.

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#WPFD2023

We joined 45+ orgs led by Freedom of the Press and Committee to Protect Journalists calling for Buncombe County DA to end the prosecution of two journalists convicted of the “crime” of recording newsworthy police conduct at a public park.

#WPFD2023 #WPFD #WorldPressFreedomDay

https://freedom.press/news/more-than-45-orgs-call-to-drop-charges-against-asheville-journalists/

More than 45 orgs call to drop charges against Asheville journalists

Prosecution is unconstitutional and against the interests of justice

Freedom of the Press

ඝාතනයට ලක් වූ මාධ්‍යවේදීන්ට යුක්තිය ඉල්ලා යාපනයේ මාධ්‍යවේදීන් විරෝධතාවයක.. syr.us/T5d #WorldPressFreedomDay2023 #srilanka #justice #lka #WPFD2023 #Jaffna

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