Attorneys for Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot reportedly admitted in a court filing that her office had put a racially discriminatory interview policy in place for two days. Lightfoot is facing a civil rights lawsuit by the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF) and Judicial Watch for denying an interview request from DCNF reporter Thomas Catenacci, who…
Chicago Mayor’s Attorneys Say Discrimination Against White Reporters Lasted Only 2 Days
3 Female Media Workers Killed on Way Home From Work in Eastern Afghanistan
JALALABAD, Afghanistan—Three female media workers were shot dead in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Tuesday, government officials said, amid a wave of killings that is spreading fear among professional workers in urban centers. Zalmai Latifi, head of local broadcaster Enikas TV, said the three women were recent high school graduates aged between 18…
Foreign Journalists in China See ‘Rapid Decline in Media Freedom’: Survey
BEIJING—China used coronavirus prevention measures, intimidation, and visa curbs to limit foreign reporting in 2020, ushering in a “rapid decline in media freedom,” the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) said on Monday. For the third year in a row, no journalists told the group that working conditions had improved, the FCCC said in an…
Two Journalists Jailed for 2 Years in Belarus for Filming Protests
KYIV—A Belarusian court sentenced two Belarusian journalists from Poland-based TV news channel Belsat who filmed protests against President Alexander Lukashenko to two years in prison on Thursday. Katsiaryna Andreyeva, 27, and Darya Chultsova, 23, were detained in an apartment in November from where they had been filming protests taking place over the death of a…
Report: UK Expelled 3 Chinese Spies Posing as Journalists
The UK has expelled three Chinese spies who were posing as journalists, according to a report by the Telegraph that cites an unnamed senior government official. The report comes the day after the UK broadcast regulator Ofcom revoked the licence of a Chinese television network, which was swiftly followed by Beijing lodging an official complaint…
Trump Signs Bill Authorizing Memorial for Fallen Journalists
President Donald Trump on Dec. 23 signed a bill into law authorizing a memorial dedicated for fallen journalists. The Fallen Journalist Memorial Act (H.R. 3465), passed through Congress with bipartisan support on Dec. 2, authorizes the Fallen Journalists Memorial Foundation (FJM) to establish an effort to build a first-of-its-kind privately funded memorial on federal lands in…
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