Things are looking rosy at the kiosk, ideal world on women's magazine shelves. "I'm living my dream," is the headline Bridget. the Guido shows designer Kretschmer in a cuddly toy robot and writes: "Treat yourself!" Beyond the printed high-gloss finish, however, things look different. The mood among those who wrote the cheerful lines, among the editors of the Hamburg publishing house that once bore the proud name of Gruner + Jahr, is depressed - so depressed that even the best...
from Christoph Koopmann and Ronen SteinkeSecret services don't like it when secret information about them is in the newspaper. In February 1994, one of the leading agents of the Federal Intelligence Service (BND), Volker Foertsch, was given the task of stopping the "information leaks" from the service as head of Department 5 "Security and Counterintelligence". The agent should find out how it could be that journalists kept getting insider knowledge from the service. Foertsch also wanted to use his own...
Freedom of the press in Morocco, a right not respected. On Thursday, MEPs criticized the decisions taken by Rabat degrading press freedom. In a non-binding text very widely adopted in Strasbourg - 356 votes for, 32 against and 42 abstentions - the European Parliament "urged" the Moroccan authorities to "respect freedom of expression and freedom of the media" and to " guarantee imprisoned journalists (…) a fair trial”.The parliamentarians insisted in particular on the case of Omar Radi. This Moroccan...
The Federal Association of German Newspaper Publishers (BDVZ) and the European Center for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) want to collect and make available reliable data on the safety of local journalists. To this end, the two organizations have now initiated a new platform "Image as an enemy of journalists - monitoring local journalism". The police and authorities should also be made aware of the security situation of local journalists with the study.Affected journalists can describe their case using an...
According to the UN cultural organization Unesco, 86 journalists were killed in a targeted manner worldwide last year. After several years of decline, that number has soared in 2022, said Audrey Azoulay, the organization's director-general, in Paris on Monday. According to the Unesco Observatory, the number of murders of journalists averaged 58 per year from 2019 to 2021.The development in 2022 is alarming, said Azoulay. "The authorities must redouble their efforts to put an end to these crimes and ensure...
As of: 01/16/2023 6:35 p.m The trial of Polish journalist Poczobut has begun in Belarus. He is accused of violating national security and inciting strife. He faces up to twelve years in prison. A trial against a correspondent of a leading Polish newspaper has begun in Belarus. Andrzej Poczobut, 49, belongs to the Polish minority in the country. He is accused of inciting hatred and "acts aimed at endangering national security". Poczobut, a correspondent for Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper, is also...
“If your work correctly reflects Russian illegal acts, your reward amount will be increased as a sign of our gratitude. Here, translated from English, is the most eloquent part of the strange email received on Thursday by the editorial staff of several French media, including 20 minutes. An email which, moreover, refers to the website Visitukraine. today, with a completely official appearance, which incorporates the logos of several Ukrainian ministries. Attempt to bribe journalists? Malicious act of Russian hackers? In...
Three journalists have been missing since December 27 in Mexico in one of the 32 federated states most affected by violence, defenders of human rights and freedom of expression denounced on Wednesday. All three worked for an information portal in the state of Guerrero (southwest), where violence has also affected its tourist capital Acapulco in recent days.Two of them appeared chained in a video posted on the Internet. One of them claims that they are paying "the consequences" of their...
Status: 09.01.2023 7:58 p.m They reported on demonstrations, now they are on trial: Journalists in Belarus are accused, among other things, of "inciting hatred". Their news site was once the most popular online medium in the country. In Belarus, five journalists from the online news site tut.by, which has since been banned, have been brought to justice. Editor-in-chief Maryna Solatava and general director Lyudmila Chekina are accused of "violating national security", "inciting hatred" and tax evasion in the trial that...
Status: 07.01.2023 5:32 p.m In December, a video of South Sudanese President Kiir circulating showed him with a wet pant leg. Six journalists have now been arrested. Six journalists have been arrested in South Sudan over a video allegedly showing the country's president wetting. The journalists from the state television station SSBC had already been arrested on Tuesday, said the Committee for the Protection of Journalists (CPJ) in New York. However, according to an SSBC spokesman, the broadcaster did not...
