101 East is honoured to have won 8 awards at this year’s New York Festivals, including three golds for India’s Combat Women Fighters and Myanmar’s Rohingya VJs. Watch these films and more in our playlist: aje.io/101east

India's Modi is reported to Election Commission after calling Muslims 'infiltrators' and 'baby producers' in a fiery Islamophobic speech amid elections trtworld.com/asia/outrage-a…

Not great news coming out of the world's largest democracy abc.net.au/news/2024-04-2…

The fascist Modi regime forces out ABC correspondent Avani Dias

smh.com.au/world/asia/her…

Many thanks to nicnewman and Ellen Heinrichs for featuring our explainer videos in this article on countering news avoidance. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/seven-thi…

In what is being called a 'monumental' and 'historic' win for local news, New York lawmakers have approved $90 million worth of payroll tax credits over the next three years to hire local journalists as part of the state's 2025 budget.
axios.com/2024/04/21/ny-…

Just finished Lech Blaine 's brilliant Quarterly Essay on Peter Dutton - get a copy of it...

quarterlyessay.com.au

Kung fu was long considered off-limits to women in Nepal, but the ancient martial art is giving Buddhist nuns strength and confidence to break other taboos in the South Asian nation. Watch the full film: aje.io/kungfununs

My latest investigation for Background Briefing ABC News looks at what happens when patients ask for #voluntaryassisteddying & facilities say “not here”. Thanks to everyone who shared their story, many more than we had space to include. abc.net.au/news/2024-04-2…

This Background Briefing ABC News story is a powerful illustration of the harms #institutionalobjection causes patients and families seeking #assisteddying . Annika Blau Ruthie Jeanneret Dr Eliana Close Lindy Willmott Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR)

About 1,300 people have fled eastern Myanmar into Thailand as fresh fighting erupted near a border town that was recently captured by ethnic Karen guerrillas and their allies, officials said

More ➡️ trib.al/jzKOoSp

Where Jurors in Trump Hush-Money Trial Say They Get Their News. nytimes.com/2024/04/19/nyr…

“I feel like Rob Sitch in Utopia”: Media Briefs reports on the mood at SBS, and Seven has faced an incredible week filled with litigation, angry texts and mea culpas. crikey.com.au/2024/04/19/sbs…

I grew up listening to endless boomer stories about Vietnam protests, the women's lib protests, on and on. Where are you guys now?

As a parent I hear endless griping that 'the kids' are all self-involved, participation trophy-collecting navel gazers. Where are you guys now?

The press is being banned from the institution that administers the Pulitzer Prizes.

In Turkey, DW Deutsche Welle investigated risks from deadly asbestos dust stirred up in the aftermath of the February 2023 earthquake.

Here's how they did it: buff.ly/3VUYiUf

'She has been moved, but we don't know where to'.

Aung San Suu Kyi's son Kim Aris speaks to Kay Burley after reports she was moved to house arrest from prison.

He adds 'they are saying house arrest. She only has one house and she's not there'

trib.al/v6yFKV1

📺Sky 501

Dutton on French 'bollard man' being offered a permanent visa: 'I support the PM's generous offer... he embodies the Anzac spirit.'

Dutton on the injured Pakistani security guard being offered the same: 'That's obviously an issue for the PM...'

Can't make this shit up 🙃

This is how deeply embedded racism is in our national character. The white French men are hailed and given fast tracked visas. The brown Pakistani man left to languish in visa anxiety in hospital, with just a “the immigration minister is looking at it”
dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

📢 Freelancers 👋

Our HEFAT Fund is open to applications. We encourage you to apply sooner rather than later and to spread the word.

Click here to apply:
🔗 rorypecktrust.org/how-we-help/tr…

Here's what Claire Day, CBS News Assignments Director, had to say after her HEFA training.