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...
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IJU condemns police attack on photojournalists in Srinagar
The Indian Journalists Union (IJU) strongly condemned the pre-meditated police attack on the photo journalists in Srinagar on Thursday. In a statement issued on Friday, 17 March 2017, S N Sinha, President, Sabina Inderjit, Vice President, Amar Devulapalli,...
Photojournalist detained in Odisha, India
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the National Union of Journalists (India) condemn the police detention of a photojournalist in Bhubaneswar in Odisha, on March 6. The IFJ demands an inquiry into the detention and urges the Indian government to...
South Asia Media Solidarity Bulletin: March, 2017
Welcome to the monthly e-bulletin of the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN). The next bulletin will be sent on July 15, 2016, and your inputs are most welcome. We encourage contributions to let others know your activities; to seek solidarity and support from...
Exposing police corruption gets Bangladeshi journalist arrested
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Bangladesh Manobadhikar Sangbadik Forum (BMSF) express serious concern over the arrest of Binoy Krishna Mallik, the former vice-president of the Jessore Press Club and a rights activist in Bangladesh on March...
I tweet but am very selective and very careful
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...
President Sirisena urged to expedite probes and end impunity
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate the Free Media Movement (FMM) Sri Lanka, in expressing its dismay over the statement made by President Maithripala Sirisena discouraging investigations into crimes against journalists by the...
IFJ calls for action to defend women’s voices online in Asia-Pacific
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its Asia-Pacific affiliates today demanded meaningful action against the growth of online harassment of women journalists in the region. Using the occasion of International Women’s Day (March 8), media unions and...
Neha Dixit: “Sexually Explicit Abuses Land in my Inbox”
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...
रेडियोकाे प्रसारणमा अवरोध
त्रिभुवन विश्वविद्यालय, रत्नराज्यलक्ष्मी क्याम्पस परिसरमा रहेको टियू एफएम १०७ मेगाहर्जको प्रसारण बन्द भएको घटनाप्रति नेपाल पत्रकार महासंघको गम्भीर ध्यानाकर्षण भएको छ । रत्नराज्य क्याम्पसमा स्वतन्त्र विद्यार्थी युनियनको निर्वाचन तोकिएको दिन फागुन २३ गते बिहानदेखि...