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With the U.S. presidential elections just weeks away, journalists are receiving training in safety and legal issues. The workshops come amid a rise in detentions and attacks on media. voanews.com/press-freedom

With #elections two weeks away and attacks on US #journalists increasing, the IWMF is offering #newsroom safety training. voanews.com/a/newsrooms-tr…

Two days after his transfer from prison to house arrest, publisher Jose Ruben Zamora had a visitor: Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo. voanews.com/a/president-ar…

"We pride ourselves on not just writing about immigrants but writing for them," Fisayo Okare tells me about Documented. My story w Cristina Caicedo S. on how this local outlet is covering immigration in New York voanews.com/a/new-york-med…

In New York City, a media outlet run by immigrants for immigrants uses messaging apps to engage with communities on elections, crime and local issues. voanews.com/a/by-immigrant…

▶️ Covering voting in the U.S. varies from state to state. VOA’s Cristina Caicedo Smit looks at the rules on what media can and cannot do. voanews.com/a/us-president… #VOAElections2024

Pro-democracy publisher Jimmy Lai testified for the first time in his national security trial in Hong Kong on Wednesday. voanews.com/a/national-sec… Reporting by my colleague Liam Scott

Nigerien journalist fights for press freedom despite challenges voanews.com/a/nigerien-jou…

US press club moves to defend, support threatened journalists globally voanews.com/a/us-press-clu…

Fearing for his life, Josue Chube Choque remembers shouting that he was a journalist as protesters attacked him in Bolivia in October. See my latest story ➡️ voanews.com/a/journalists-…

BREAKING: “One of the things that we're going to be discussing at our White House meeting is that we've recently received very fresh information from a unimpeachable source that Austin is, in fact, alive.” Marc Tice, Austin Tice father told VOA today.

Bolivia’s media comes under attack; a Ukrainian journalist is recognized for her work investigating war crimes; and journalists in exile find new ways to reach audiences during conflict. Here’s this week’s press freedom highlights. voanews.com/press-freedom

The fall of the Assad government in Syria is cause for cautious optimism in the case of Austin Tice, an American journalist held captive there, according to his mother Debra Tice. voanews.com/a/after-assad-… From: Liam Scott

China, Israel leading jailers of journalists, says report voanews.com/a/china-israel…

Reporter's Notebook: Navigating journalism in the 'new' Syria voanews.com/a/reporter-s-n…

In Syria, the search for missing U.S. freelancer Austin Tice continues. Russia designates more journalists as so-called foreign agents, plus more in this week’s VOA press freedom highlights. voanews.com/press-freedom

Ahead of election, media group accuses Belarus of crimes against humanity.... From my colleage Liam Scott voanews.com/a/ahead-of-ele…

Arriving as a refugee in Pakistan four decades ago, Besmillah Miakhil’s first purchase was a radio. Now 88, Miakhil says broadcasts help keep him connected to his home country, Afghanistan. #WorldRadioDay voanews.com/a/radio-offers…

▶️Three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, journalists report on the costs of war, despite risks of attack, injury or being jailed by Russia. voanews.com/a/in-ukraine-r…