People - 23 Gennaio Jen Psaki Will Serve Citizens the Truth, but Only as Far as Biden Wants In his inauguration speech, Joe Biden emphasized that “defending the truth to combat lies” is very important. A few hours later, the new press secretary, Jen Psaki, held her first daily briefing at the White House. In that little room – I’ve been there, and it really is small – correspondents will once again have […]
News - 23 Maggio 2020 World Press Freedom Day 2020: US Senate Introduces Bipartisan Resolution Senator Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations’ Subcommittee that oversees human rights, together with their fellow senate constituents, introduced a bipartisan resolution on May 20th to commemorate World Press Freedom Day. Senators Menendez and Rubio led a bipartisan coalition of 13 senators to […]
News - 6 Aprile 2020 Coronavirus and Information: the Anti-journalist Virus is Killing Democracy In Italiano When you are facing a very grave crisis in a democracy, one that puts the lives of citizens in danger, as with a war or an earthquake– or even more so in a pandemic, how should journalists behave? Should they perhaps “suspend” their role of “watchdog” that digs up the wrongdoings of the […]
First Amendment - 5 Aprile 2020 Coronavirus e informazione: i malati di virus anti giornalisti uccidono la democrazia In English Quando si è difronte ad una gravissima crisi che mette in pericolo la vita dei cittadini – come una guerra, un terremoto… una pandemia! – in una democrazia i giornalisti come dovrebbero comportarsi? Dovrebbero forse “sospendere” il loro ruolo di “cani da caccia” che scovano le malefatte del governo per il bene della […]
News - 1 Ottobre 2019 Khashoggi’s Murder, Jamal’s Fiancée Hatice Cengiz Calls for Justice The world is only aware of Jamal Khashoggi’s public face, especially his journalistic work and his criticism against the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman and King Salman. It is no coincidence that in September 2017, Mr. Khashoggi decided to flee his country and go into a self-imposed exile. However, in the eyes of Cengiz, he was much more: he was her everything. “I miss him like a friend, a husband, sometimes also like a brother and a father. At first, I didn’t think we could have a special relationship", she said.
First Amendment - 20 Giugno 2019 Guterres to UN Correspondents: Protection of Journalists Is Our Task UNCA VIDEO/ Scannews
U.N. - 3 Maggio 2019 World Press Freedom Day at the United Nations: “Post-Truth is Pre-Fascism” Mr. Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the UN, said, “No democracy is complete without access to transparent and reliable information,” and he firmly stated, “It is the cornerstone for building fair and impartial institutions, holding leaders accountable, and speaking truth to power.”
People - 24 Aprile 2019 Gaia Pianigiani’s Beauty of Journalism: Freedom Will Always Have a Future She thinks that journalists are “artisans of words,” and that, in order to carry out this profession every day, you need care, precision, and inventiveness, just like a craftsman. And she maintains that she became an “artisan of words” thanks to her stubbornness because despite the recommendations of those who (maybe wisely) had advised her […]
U.N. - 7 Gennaio 2019 Journalism as a Vocation: Being Young Reporters in Dangerous Countries We asked the young fellows who attended the Reham Al-Farra Memorial Journalism Fellowship at the UN last fall to tell us what being journalists in their countries – where the press works in difficult circumstances – is like, and what it means to them. Here are the answers of some of them.
News - 12 Ottobre 2018 Trump’s War on “Fake News”: The Ripple Effect on Journalists Around the World From America to around the world, the U.S. led-attack on free press has made life dangerous for all journalists. On October 2 Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi columnist for The Washington Post and a U.S. resident, entered Saudi Arabia's Consulate in Istanbul but has not been seen since. Turkish officials say they believe Khashoggi was murdered in the Saudi Consulate. This would serve as another example of the extent of the repercussions journalists might face for simply voicing their concern towards a regime.