!! George Clooney agrees that journalists need proper support and legal defense in repressive environments where authoritarian pressure corrupts the judicial system. Clooney Foundation for Justice

📖 Today’s read: via CIMA: Sasha Schroeder examines the uneven relationship between Big Tech and news #media as well as how countries in the Global South are trying to rebalance it: ow.ly/nGJM50Lpkzm #MediaDev

Today w/ 4 other #pressfreedom groups we launched a full-page ad in The Washington Post calling for a U.S. investigation into the killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Committee to Protect Journalists RSF International Women's Media Foundation National Press Club #JusticeforShireen #EndImpunity

Today is International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. I interviewed Zoé Titus about the crisis of impunity and how civil society in Southern Africa is fighting it #JournalismIsNotACrime #IDEI22 #EndImpunity

Thank you Sasha Schroeder & CIMA for this interview; for putting a different spin on the issue & with such thoughtfulness. Hope it impacts our approach & ensures a safer world for journos to do their work. See here: bit.ly/3UcLjty NMT Media Foundation #EndImpunity

Today IPI joined Al Jazeera PR, Lina Abu Akleh & RSF in The Hague to request the Int'l Criminal Court investigate the killing of Palestinian-American journalist #ShireenAbuAkleh. 🧵 (1/7) aljazeera.com/news/2022/12/6…

"Media reform can’t occur in a vacuum," says Assistant Secretary Riley Barnes PDAS Lisa Peterson, kicking off CIMA's discussion on media reform during political openings. "Civil society is integral at all stages of media reform." #MediaDev cima.ned.org/publication/me…

"Journalists across the country are preparing themselves for heightened tensions at the polls due to an electioneering period characterized by violence & nationwide economic instability." Ahead of #Nigeria's elections, read more from @the_senami: cima.ned.org/blog/nigerias-… #MediaDev

Important read from Veysel OK on our blog today on the devastating impact of Turkey’s censorship of journalists in the aftermath of last month’s earthquakes

#Russia: As The Wall Street Journal reporter Evan #Gershkovich makes his first court appearance since his arrest in March, IPI once again demands his immediate release. Evan's place is reporting on the ground, not locked in a glass booth in a Moscow courtroom. #FreeEvan bbc.co.uk/news/world-eur…

The NY Times' A.G. Sulzberger points out that independent media is the first line of defense against resurgent authoritarianism. He's right, as an analysis from CIMA shows. #WorldPressFreedomDay cima.ned.org/publication/ti…

📬 CIMA's new newsletter, "Week in Review," highlights global #MediaDev, #PressFreedom, and #DigitalMedia news & events around the world. Subscribe here: ned.us20.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=a0… Explore this week's stories below ⤵️

From 2011-2022, 78 countries passed 105 laws targeting "fake news." A new CIMA report by Gabrielle Lim & Samantha Bradshaw | @[email protected] explores how repressive governments weaponize these laws against independent media: cima.ned.org/publication/ch… #MediaDev

NEDemocracy will honor Afghan media at #NEDat40. Despite being forced to choose exile or work in secrecy, Afghan journalists keep the news flowing. CIMA spoke to media leaders about the realities of reporting on the ground Sasha Schroeder cima.ned.org/blog/my-job-is…

Struggling to untangle who's actually in charge of who in VDL's new commission? I dug through 26 mission letters to figure it out… Fully interactive graphic here: politico.eu/article/eu-pow…

Mozambican soldiers operating out of TotalEnergies' natural gas plant abducted, raped and killed dozens of civilians in summer 2021. Alex Perry collected survivors' testimonies and reconstructed an account of the atrocities. Read the investigation: trib.al/CcpxzRo

Turkey has been using EU-funded infrastructure to conduct forced deportations of refugees. Our new investigation in partnership with Lighthouse Reports and other media looks under the hood of Ankara’s deportation machine. 🔗 trib.al/IeWzIYX

Israel and Hamas have not engaged in talks over a cease-fire in Gaza for around a month, Qatar's prime minister indicated yesterday after the EU-Gulf Cooperation Council summit in Brussels. trib.al/SlteV68

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron have agreed to work with Syrian opposition groups “on the basis of fundamental human rights and the protection of ethnic and religious minorities,” Berlin said in a statement. trib.al/hFFI5jT

Treasury terminates sanctions on Israeli settlers in West Bank ow.ly/GkkV105XN8v