by SAMSN Admin | Mar 17, 2017 | Harassment, Internet Freedom, SAMSN Blog, South Asia
Understanding trolling behaviour holds to clue to stopping it. Trolling and online abuse is today an ugly reality of the online space. The phenomenal opening up of opportunities to reach out and disseminate news and opinions online is accompanied by an unpleasant...
by SAMSN Admin | Mar 16, 2017 | Pakistan, SAMSN Blog
If technology has made it easier to harass women in general and journalists in particular, it has also given women space to break the silence and talk about it. They will find they have a whole army behind them to back. For example, the #shoutingback or Everyday...
by SAMSN Admin | Mar 8, 2017 | India, SAMSN Blog
In this extract from her hard-hitting speech* delivered while accepting the Chameli Devi Award for Outstanding Woman Journalist for 2016, Neha Dixit describes how she has been harassed by trolls over the years. After being called ‘antinational’ for months on end, it...
by SAMSN Admin | Mar 3, 2017 | Right to Information, SAMSN Blog, Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka’s new Right to Information (RTI) Law, adopted through a rare Parliamentary consensus in June 2016, became fully operational on 3 February 2017. From that day on, the island nation’s 21 million citizens could exercise their legal right to public information...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 11, 2017 | India, SAMSN Blog, Trade Union Rights
Manisha Pande examines the alarming trend of newsgathering being replaced with news aggregation by the desk, and the accompanying job losses especially among reporters. Gautam Sarkar (47) did not know his job was on the chopping block when his editor called him at...
by SAMSN Admin | Feb 11, 2017 | Bangladesh, Impunity, Killing, SAMSN Blog
Despite assurances of speedy justice, investigation into the brutal murder of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi continues to languish, says Saleem Samad Justice is long overdue in the sensational murder of Sagar Sarowar, news editor of private network...
