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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 01/10/2026
Filming a commemoration got Hong Kong journalist Tang Ho-wing arrested for sedition, a charge carrying up to seven years. hongkongfp.com/2026/10/01/hong-kong…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 30/09/2026
Egypt has detained the entire editorial team of Matsda2sh, an independent investigative outlet. Six journalists were arrested this week and no charge has been named. CPJ counts 19 others jailed there. cpj.org/2026/09/cpj-partners-demand…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 28/09/2026
L'Unità, the Italian daily Gramsci founded in 1924, has shut for good. Its owner fired the last five staff, and a sale to the Democratic Party fell through. www.primaonline.it/2026/09/24/48351…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 24/09/2026
Tunisian security forces lured three Nawaat journalists with a fake courier call, held them two hours and tried to search their phones without a warrant, CPJ said Thursday. cpj.org/2026/09/3-tunisian-journali…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 24/09/2026
A federal judge has ordered the White House to give CNN, MS NOW and Politico their press passes back. Judge Timothy Kelly's 14-day order calls the ban likely unconstitutional, with no national-security basis. www.cnn.com/2026/09/24/politics/tru…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 24/09/2026
A Munich court has voided the clauses Süddeutsche Zeitung used to take freelancers' work for AI training, their research and logs of every AI prompt. Brought by ver.di and the DJV, the ruling can be appealed. mmm.verdi.de/beruf/gericht-kassiert…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 23/09/2026
Luis Galeano, the exiled Nicaraguan journalist held in US custody in Florida since September 14, has been granted bond and could walk free today or tomorrow, his wife says. A hearing is set for October 2. www.laprensani.com/2026/09/23/nacio…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 22/09/2026
Six of America's biggest newsrooms signed a joint statement defending press freedom, after the White House barred CNN, MS NOW and Politico: AP, Bloomberg, NYT, Reuters, WSJ and the Washington Post. cpj.org/2026/09/leading-news-outlet…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 21/09/2026
OpenAI executives called their own products an 'existential threat' to publishers and 'largely substitutive,' unsealed court filings show. digiday.com/media/paywall-violation…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 18/09/2026
Venezuela has dropped its case against jailed press-freedom defender Carlos Correa, now a candidate for the Americas’ free-expression rapporteur. www.infobae.com/venezuela/2026/09/1…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 17/09/2026
ICE has jailed an exiled Nicaraguan journalist who fled Ortega in 2018. Luis Galeano was driving for Uber in Orlando when agents detained him. His hearing is set for 2 October. cpj.org/2026/09/cpj-calls-on-ice-to…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 16/09/2026
A US judge has blocked a rule capping foreign correspondents' stays at 240 days, a day before it took effect, citing the risk critical reporters would lose renewals. www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 14/09/2026
A senator from Mexico's governing party told Televisa's Enrique Acevedo 'we're coming after you' over a report, then deleted it. President Sheinbaum condemned the threat. articulo19.org/el-periodista-enriqu…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 01/09/2026
The line from Judge Wise's ruling for The Stanford Daily: free speech is illusory if people are only free to praise the government. First ruling to call newsroom self-censorship a First Amendment injury. stanforddaily.com/2026/08/29/stanfo…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 31/08/2026
The line to read this week: a free data-broker sample held 100 million location records from a million phones. CPJ and Harvard show a reporter's sources can be unmasked through ad data, no phone tap needed. cpj.org/2026/08/protecting-against-…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 27/08/2026
The number worth noticing: India is now Bloomberg's second-largest digital audience, behind only the US. It launched a dedicated India edition this week while English-language titles cut staff. www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 26/08/2026
The one found alive: Elí Martínez, ambushed in Poza Rica this week on a street where two crime reporters were killed this year. www.infobae.com/mexico/2026/08/25/e…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 25/08/2026
Freed after a UN body called her two-year jailing arbitrary, Kyrgyz reporter Makhabat Tajibek kyzy is back on trial in Bishkek for the same corruption case. cpj.org/2026/08/cpj-renews-call-for…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 24/08/2026
The line from Dhaka: three jailed journalists in court, charged with crimes against humanity over questions at a press conference. The ceiling is death. cpj.org/2026/08/bangladesh-war-crim…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 20/08/2026
The bit worth noticing in Iran's case against YouTube show Azad: prosecutors say it needs a state media licence, so posting interviews online now takes a broadcaster's permission. Host barred from work. www.journalismpakistan.com/iran-ban…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 17/08/2026
The detail that matters in Nepal: the Supreme Court freed journalist Kishor Shrestha, noting the photo behind the privacy complaint against him was posted by the complainant himself. english.nepalnews.com/s/crime-news/…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 11/08/2026
The detail worth noticing in the Ranucci case: the alleged mastermind of the car bomb is a former newspaper publisher. Valter Lavitola was jailed yesterday over the 2025 blast at the Report host's home. www.ilpost.it/2026/08/10/valter-lav…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 10/08/2026
A year ago today an Israeli strike hit a Press-marked tent in Gaza, killing Al Jazeera's Anas al-Sharif and six others. The IFJ counts 241 journalists killed there since 2023. www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/11/an…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 06/08/2026
The name to notice on CPJ's 2026 list: Estefany Rodríguez, held in US ICE custody after covering immigration raids, now honored beside Eritrea's jailed reporters. cpj.org/2026/08/cpj-to-recognize-jo…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 05/08/2026
Two Islamabad reporters, Razi Tahir and Muhammad Saif, missing since men in police uniform took them from their office on 1 August. A third is on hunger strike as Kashmir goes dark. www.journalismpakistan.com/cpj-dema…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 04/08/2026
The Fedorova case, worth a look: France is expelling a TV commentator for what she says, not a crime. Her own broadcasters call it a press-freedom breach. www.france24.com/en/france/20260729…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 03/08/2026
Bamako sentenced editor Chahana Takiou of 22 Septembre to six months' jail today for "damaging the credit of the state," over a June panel remark on Mali's cybercrime law. malijet.com/a_la_une_du_mali/310952…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 03/08/2026
The bit worth noticing: one prosecutor in Port Sudan named 47 journalists as fugitives and gave them a week to report. Several live abroad, where the cybercrime law's in-absentia judgments reach them. darfur24.com/en/2026/07/24/sudanese…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 28/07/2026
The bit worth noticing: one prosecutor in Port Sudan named 47 journalists as fugitives and gave them a week to report. Several live abroad, where the cybercrime law's in-absentia judgments reach them. darfur24.com/en/2026/07/24/sudanese…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 25/07/2026
A suspect is in custody over the killing of Italian sports reporter Luca Esposito, 53, found burned near Eboli last Sunday. www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/topnews/20…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 23/07/2026
A DW reporter covers Turkey's courts. Turkey held him a day over one post on how those courts work, then kept his passport. www.turkishminute.com/2026/07/22/dw…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 22/07/2026
The new turn in the Ranucci case: a Rome court upheld the mafia-method charge against the four accused of car-bombing the Report host, and refused to free them. www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2026/07/22…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 20/07/2026
The one to watch: Thailand holds Chinese reporter Bai Zhaodong in a cell while its PM visits Beijing and China demands him back. 50+ groups call it payback. rsf.org/en/rsf-safeguard-defenders-…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 17/07/2026
New today: a DHS rule ends the open-ended US visas foreign correspondents held since 1985. Stays now cap at 240 days, 90 for Chinese nationals. cpj.org/2026/07/cpj-condemns-trump-…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 16/07/2026
Two former Hong Kong reporters, Sum Wan-wah and Mandy Lau, arrested for running a bookshop. The second bookstore raid under the security law in under a month. cpj.org/2026/07/hong-kong-arrests-t…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 15/07/2026
The line to sit with: Ali Lmrabet flew home to Morocco after ten years in exile, and border police met him at the airport with old warrants. A decade away reset nothing. cpj.org/2026/07/moroccan-authoritie…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 14/07/2026
The turn worth noticing in the Ranucci case: the man bombed at his home in October has filed for defamation over a story casting him as the attack's beneficiary. tg24.sky.it/cronaca/2026/07/13/atte…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 13/07/2026
The bit worth noticing as Geo News returns: PEMRA now makes every Pakistani channel run an in-house monitoring board, and bars sacked staff from the industry for life. www.journalismpakistan.com/as-geo-n…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 11/07/2026
The new bit: four New York Times reporters have been subpoenaed to a grand jury over their Air Force One story, some served by federal agents at their homes. The paper says it will fight the order. www.cnn.com/2026/07/11/politics/new…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 09/07/2026
The line to read from Kashmir: reporter Syed Farhad Ali Shah held three weeks, no charge, under a colonial-era law that needs no case at all. cpj.org/2026/07/journalist-syed-far…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 08/07/2026
The bit worth noticing in the GB News cuts: management told staff the channel can run on a third fewer people because it automated the work. Up to 90 roles, presenters spared. pressgazette.co.uk/news/journalism-…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 07/07/2026
The bit worth noticing in Turkey's pre-dawn sweep: two of the 39 detained were newspaper editors, from T24 and OdaTV, picked up two days before NATO meets in Ankara. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/0…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 02/07/2026
The rare one that goes the other way: a Chilean judge and a general got five years each for illegally tapping investigative reporter Mauricio Weibel. Final, no appeal. cpj.org/2026/07/ex-judge-ex-general…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 01/07/2026
The bit worth noticing in the Ranucci case: eight months on, Italian police have the four who planted the car bomb at his home, but not whoever ordered it. Commissioned, mafia method. www.cbsnews.com/news/arrests-bomb-a…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 30/06/2026
The bit worth noticing: Pakistan’s regulator pulled Geo News, its largest private channel, off every platform for 15 days, over a documentary it had apologised for. www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2026/06/28…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 29/06/2026
Istanbul, Sunday: reporter Müberra Ünsal showed her press card, said she was covering the banned Pride march, and was detained anyway. One of at least 50 taken in. www.france24.com/en/middle-east/202…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 25/06/2026
Two witnesses told BIRD that a businessman ordered an attack on Bulgarian reporter Dimitar Stoyanov, whose bank accounts were frozen in April over his finance reporting: cpj.org/2026/06/bulgarian-investiga…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 24/06/2026
The names from Robinhood's Sherwood News cuts: Rani Molla, Max Knoblauch, Jon Keegan. The brokerage built a newsroom to win attention, now it's folding it back into the trading app. www.niemanlab.org/reading/robinhood…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 23/06/2026
The bit worth noticing today: a UK Green Paper wants YouTube, TikTok and Meta to push trusted news (BBC, ITV, local publishers) to the top of feeds. 10-week consultation now open. pressgazette.co.uk/news/news-publis…
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The News Professionals @journalist.net · 23/06/2026
Two years on, Burkina Faso's only word on missing L'Événement editor Atiana Serge Oulon is that he was 'conscripted' into the army. HRW, Amnesty and RSF want him released. www.hrw.org/news/2026/06/22/burkina…
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