🇷🇼 You’re probably familiar with Rwanda’s tourism commercials, its branding on soccer shirts, and its female majority in parliament. You’ve probably heard about the country’s miraculous rebuilding 30 years after the Tutsi genocide - a crime for which France has acknowledged its

Such a delight to celebrate this year’s Livingston Award winners Samantha Hogan , Allison Behringer , Lila Hassan ليلى حسن , and Renata Brito for their ambitious and revelatory reporting. And such an honor to present our Richard M. Clurman Award for mentorship to Kevin Merida - Wow, what a great day!

All eyes on Mississippi. This case is about more than trying to shut down one small newsroom. Stand with Anna Wolfe Adam Ganucheau and Mississippi Today. They are fighting the good fight for us all.

Congrats to The Wall Street Journal reporter Selina Cheng on becoming head of the Hong Kong Journalists Association. Such an important time to have a fearless and focused leader. Those of us who believe in #PressFreedom and the future of #HongKong must support a strong and functional HKJA. 加油!

It’s Wednesday June 26, 2024. WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich was detained by the Russian FSB Mar 29, 2023. 1 year & 89 days ago HIS SHAM TRIAL BEGAN TODAY cnn.com/2024/06/26/eur… JOURNALISM IS NOT A CRIME! 📰 🎙️ 📺 FREE EVAN NOW! #IStandWithEvan

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Journalism is not a crime. #WeStandWithEvan The Wall Street Journal wsj.com/world/falsely-…

Spectacular news from Knight Foundation. Congratulations, Marisa Kwiatkowski! 👏🏽👏🏽

Hard to express how meaningful this support is from songfoundation and The Joyce Foundation for the training of local news entrepreneurs in the Great Lakes states. Thanks to Knight-Wallace alum Mazin Sidahmed for contextualizing the stakes for our democracy. Wallace House Center for Journalists University of Michigan

Deep gratitude to songfoundation for understanding that our democracy cannot thrive without a robust, inclusive, sustainable local news ecosystem. Such vision, trust and hope from Dug Song Linh Song and Khalilah Burt Gaston informing gift. Excited for all this will make possible.

Fascinating and unsettling investigation on Russia's efforts to recruit partners for acts of violent sabotage across Europe. Excellent collaborative reporting by Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, DelfiEE , paper trail media , ZDF and DER STANDARD

Congratulations to Forbidden Stories and FRONTLINE on their Emmy win for Global Spyware Scandal: Exposing Pegasus. Truly exceptional reporting that has opened our eyes to the global powers seeking to manipulate and control through our devices.

Thank you, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, for allowing me to count the ways I admire and am inspired by Mazin Sidahmed and the mission and work of Documented. Looking forward to cheering Mazin as our Local Champion at next week’s #RCFPAwards24

🌍✨ Next Monday, our fellow Joseph Sywenkyj will take the stage as the distinguished lecturer for the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia! Sywenkyj will share his unique insights and captivating stories. 🎤 Event Details 👉 loom.ly/NwK0hV4 #Photography #Ukraine

Congratulations Jason Rezaian. I look forward to collaborating in this important work.

Can’t make sense of where we are as a country, two weeks from Election Day? Join us tomorrow, October 23, 6pm at Rackham Auditorium for a pre-election roundtable.

See you soon! 6pm | Rackham Auditorium University of Michigan Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy U-M ISR Center for Political Studies

New from me theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Indeed. This is shameful and a sign of coming danger.

My latest for VANITY FAIR is on the on link between attacks on #pressfreedom and the consolidation of authoritarian power. Once democratic backsliding sets in there's a short window to turn things around. vanityfair.com/news/story/tru…