CJA answers young journalists’ appeal for support
By CJA Executive Committee member RICHARD BOURNE It is often hard for a young person, starting out in journalism, to get advice from outside the workplace. The CJA-UK branch, following requests at its conference for student journalists in Birmingham in June last year, decided to launch a pilot mentorship scheme to help them. At its […]
Indian campaigning journalists suffer arson attack
Picture shows Khushboo Akhtar surveying the wreckage of her home. There’s been widespread condemnation among journalists and rights activists in India over an arson attack on the home of journalists Khushboo and Nadeem Akhtar, as well as physical threats against them. The family home, in Sultanpuri, north Delhi was badly damaged in the fire. The […]
Derek Ingram fellowship offers exciting opportunity
Wolfson College, Cambridge, in conjunction with the Commonwealth Journalists Association has invited applications for a Derek Ingram Press Fellow to join the Wolfson Press Fellowship Programme. This is a residential programme held at Wolfson College for three months during the Easter Term, 2024. The Programme has been running since 1982 and to date has welcomed […]
Nigerian journalists charged over corruption reports
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the authorities in Nigeria to swiftly drop all charges against journalists Aiyelabegan Babatunde AbdulRazaq and Oluwatoyin Luqman Bolakale, pictured, and allow them to work freely. On September 11, police detained the two, who are publishers of the independent news websites Just Event Online and The Satcom Media, over their critical […]
Anti-corruption campaigning journalist killed in Lesotho
The killing of an outspoken radio journalist, Ralikonelo ‘Leqhashasha’ Joki, pictured, in Lesotho has been condemned by media and civil rights campaigners. “I deplore the killing of Ralikonelo Joki. I urge authorities to investigate this crime and hold those involved to account. Violent attacks on journalists must not be used to discourage them from conducting […]
Protection call for Maltese activist
Journalists’ organisations and free speech campaigners have called on the government in Malta to protect Robert Aquilina, pictured, a writer and activist and head of the Maltese NGO, Repubblika. In a statement, they called for the prevention of threats and violence against individuals, the public condemnation of all attacks and thorough investigation of all cases. […]
Ugandan investigative journalist charged
The arrest of a Ugandan Journalist, Andrew Arinaitwe, pictured, in early March presents yet another lack of readiness by the authorities to embrace freedom of expression and of the press, writes CJA Vice President DRITO ALICE from Uganda:. Arinaitwe, a freelance journalist on assignment for the weekly magazine The Continent, was arrested at a school […]
Violence against Kenyan journalists reporting anti-govt protests condemned
Picture shows police trying to disperse opposition supporters during a protest in Nairobi. The International Press Institute (IPI) has strongly condemned a spate of violence against journalists in Kenya, after more than 20 journalists were assaulted by security forces and opposition party supporters while covering anti-government protests in Nairobi and other parts of the country. […]
Brother of exiled anti-corruption journalist attacked
The brother of a Bangladeshi journalist living in exile in London, Zulkarnain Saer Khan, pictured, has been attacked and badly injured at his home in Dhaka. Mr Khan told the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) that his brother, Mahinur Khan, suffered broken kneecaps and swelling and bruising throughout his body, and that the attackers said […]
London gathering marks loss of Hong Kong rights since transition
The 25th anniversary of the transfer of power in Hong Kong from Britain to China has been marked in London with a debate on the decline of civic freedoms there since the handover. The gathering, at the Houses of Parliament, was organised jointly by the Henry Jackson Society, the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China and the […]