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DRU Human Chain Protests Attacks on Newspapers, Harassment of Journalists, and False Cases
4+ hour, 51+ min ago (418+ words) by Maruf ul Alam (Dhaka Bureau) The Dhaka Reporters Unity (DRU) organized a human chain protest demanding the withdrawal of false cases filed against its General Secretary, Mynul Hasan Sohel, and Administrative Officer, Solaiman Hossain. The protest also condemned the…...
QUILL AND THE FLAME: Handing Down the Torch of Journalism
6+ day, 31+ min ago (262+ words) by Ruther Ray C. Ruado The Alchemy of Mentorship Sharpening the Blade of Truth Aristotle famously wrote, "Excellence is an art won by training and habituation." This sentiment echoed through the breakout sessions where elementary journalists honed their habits. The results…...
2025: Another Deadliest Year for Journalists
6+ day, 5+ hour ago (782+ words) Geneva, 18 December 2025: The year 2025 emerged as the deadliest year for journalists since the beginning of the century, after 2024. According to the tally of the Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), 161 media professionals were killed in 31 countries" Nava J. Thakuria Geneva, 18 December 2025: The year…...
Will the 15th Press Council avoid working journalists & editors as members?
2+ week, 2+ hour ago (678+ words) It may be amazing, but true that the largest democracy on Earth continues waiting for a fully functioning government-sponsored media watchdog for more than a year now. Press Council of India (PCI), a quasi-judicial body, which was initiated to safeguard…...
Book Review: Public Diplomacy and Peacekeeping Journalism
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (488+ words) Timbkieta Daniel Sawadogo, head of the branch of the Russian-African Club of Lomonosov Moscow State University in Burkina Faso and countries of the Sahel Confederation, former Cultural Attach" of the Burkina Faso Embassy in Russia, shared his views on the…...
Global Hunt Of Journalists Is Feeding Totalitarianism
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (636+ words) The global assault on journalists is a deadly threat linked to authoritarian regimes, which commonly choke off free expression, and even some "democratic" governments that deliberately seek to hide their nefarious activities In Belarus, independent media have been labeled "extremist,…...
PEC: Combat and End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (528+ words) Geneva, 1 November 2025: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, "calls for new measures to combat impunity and its devastating effects on the occasion of "International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists, a" Nava J. Thakuria…...
Inauguration of Pressenza, Dhaka Bureau Office: Hope for the Commencement of a New Chapter in Objective Journalism
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (472+ words) by'Maruf ul Alam, Dhaka Bureau The international press agency, Pressenza, has officially commenced its operations in Bangladesh. The inauguration of Pressenza's' Dhaka Bureau Office took place on Monday (October 27) at the Shafiqul Kabir Auditorium of the Dhaka Reporters Unity" Pressenza…...
India: PEC Expresses Concern over Attacks on Media Persons
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (329+ words) Geneva, 16 October 2025: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media safety and rights body, expresses serious concern over the mob attack on a number of media persons, engaged on duty, in Assam of far eastern India, while they were" Nava J. Thakuria…...
The Cost of Reality in the Psyche of a Conscious Journalist
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (932+ words) It is not fatigue: it is erosion. Reality, when it touches you daily with the coldness of a war report and the smell of a morgue, wears you down from the inside until it makes invisible the edges that once…...