TV-companies queuing to show Zelensky series
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TV companies from around the world are lining up to buy the right to broadcast the Ukrainian TV-series “Servant of the People” where the country’s president Volodymyr Zelensky played the
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UNESCO urging governments to protect independent media
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Independent journalism is in peril, faced with increasing crackdowns on press freedom, ongoing threats against the safety of journalists, and the erosion of business models, UNESCO says in World Trends
BBC resumes broadcasting from Russia
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BBC News journalists in Russia have resumed their broadcasts. The management stopped their reporting a few days ago when Russia introduced a law with up to 15 years in jail
Men taking top positions in news media
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The disbalance between women and men holding top positions in the news industry continues and has even gotten a bit worse. Only 21% of 179 top editors across 240 news
How does the Russian Nobel Peace Prize winner cover the war? [updated]
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Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, whose editor Dmitry Muratov was a co- laureate of the 2021 Nobel Peace Prize for his courageous fight for freedom of expression, announced that it would remove
Need for war information: BBC reports Russian traffic up 250%
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BBC reports that its Russian language news website has had record audience numbers since Russia invaded Ukraine. “Visitors to the English language bbc.com site from Russia were also up by
Google signing agreement with 300 French newspapers
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Google and French publisher Alliance de la Presse d’Information Générale, with close to 300 newspapers announced that they have signed an agreement where the search engine agrees to pay for
Fact-checkers joining forces against disinformation about the war in Ukraine
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Disinformation is part of modern warfare. After Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the fact-checker community has joined forces to fight disinformation. Swedish public service broadcaster SVT announced special efforts for fact-checked
State-owned TASS suspended from European news agency cooperation
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State-owned Russian news agency TASS has been suspended from the news agency organization European Alliance of News Agencies with the organization saying TASS under the circumstances is unable to provide
Meta closing fake news accounts targeting Ukraine
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Meta announced it has taken down a network run by people in Ukraine and Russia targeting Ukraine for violating the company’s policy. The network ran websites posing as independent news