journalism

Barbara Walters, the trailblazing television news broadcaster and longtime ABC News anchor, has died at the age of 93. Walters’ social significance went well beyond her role as journalist, she became a feminist icon who shattered the glass ceiling and...

“You can’t come out of a school with lots of debt and be a good citizen — you are now a dependent of someone else.”

A deepening crackdown on civil society in Libya, has prompted the concern of the UN human rights office, which noted on Friday that arbitrary arrests and a campaign of social media vilification are having “a seriously chilling effect on human...

Earlier this week, in Ukraine, three journalists, including a filmmaker, a producer and a Fox News cameraman were killed while covering the Russian invasion. Fox News cameraperson Pierre Zakrzewski, 55, and Ukrainian producer and fixer Oleksandra "Sasha" Kuvshynova, 24, were...

Authorities in Bangladesh have yet to conduct an investigation into the murder of prominent journalists Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi 10 years after they were killed, UN human rights experts said on Friday.  “A decade after the killing of the...

The crackdown on journalism affects not only everyone’s right to speak freely, but it also weakens efforts to tackle the disease. Access to timely and accurate information is a crucial part of every individual’s right to health; and by restricting...

When journalists are attacked, says UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, societies as a whole are also attacked. “No democracy can function without press freedom, which is the cornerstone of trust between people and their institutions,” said Mr. Guterres.