Media & Journalism · April, 2020

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Media & Journalism · April, 2020

Stories about Media & Journalism from April, 2020

Setbacks for freedom of expression as Tunisia fights COVID-19

’Officials and state institutions are not immune from criticism’

Written by Afef Abrougui

28 April 2020

COVID-19 in the Middle East: Is this pandemic a health crisis or a war?

War analogies drive patronizing, alarming language that generates division

Written by Saoussen Ben Cheikh

24 April 2020

Prosecutions mount as Russia intensifies fight against COVID-19 ‘fake news’

Sharing "fake news" is now a criminal offence

Written by Maxim Edwards

24 April 2020

Nepali cartoonists illustrate the country’s COVID-19 crisis

Nepali cartoonists have reacted to the COVID-19 lockdown in Nepal

Written by Sanjib Chaudhary

22 April 2020

Liberia's President George Weah sings his fight against COVID-19

A message and movement of solidarity

Written by Abdoulaye Bah

21 April 2020

For Nepal's migrant and daily wage workers, lockdown is more dangerous than the coronavirus

"The situation is very uncertain and it’s difficult to survive"

Written by Benju Lwagun

19 April 2020

Fighting the COVID-19 ‘Infodemic’ in the Asia-Pacific

EngageMedia lists some of the media initiatives addressing the COVID-19 "Infodemic' across the Asia-Pacific region

Written by EngageMedia

17 April 2020

Indigenous people in Australia prepare for COVID-19

At risk communities pull together to protect themselves from outbreaks

Written by Kevin Rennie

17 April 2020

Even with a law, São Paulo's municipalities are not fulfilling citizens’ right of access to information

A majority of 39 municipalities inquired did not comply with Brazil's access to information law

Written by Agência Mural

Translated by Liam Anderson

16 April 2020

Malaysia orders ‘stern action’ against media misreporting government statements on COVID-19

'Dissenting voices must be heard'

Written by Mong Palatino

15 April 2020

A new cross-regional anti-disinformation initiative launches in the Balkans

The network includes members from North Macedonia, Greece, Serbia, Kosovo, and Albania, and will work in cooperation with similar groups from other neighboring countries.

Written by Metamorphosis Foundation

14 April 2020

Fighting COVID-19 goes hand-in-hand with shuttering newspapers across the Middle East

Print journalism is a silent victim of the virus

Written by Saoussen Ben Cheikh

14 April 2020

Africans in China targeted by xenophobia amid fear of second-wave COVID-19 outbreak

‘We’ve paid our rent, we have legal status'

Written by Oiwan Lam

13 April 2020

Ahead of contentious elections, Burundi faces its first COVID-19 cases

Electoral campaigning officially begins in late April

Written by Liam Anderson

10 April 2020

Online journalist detained for quoting Cambodian prime minister’s advice on COVID-19

Police said the PM's joke should not be repeated to avoid confusion

Written by Mong Palatino

9 April 2020

Tunisia has a disinformation problem, but (further) criminalizing speech won't solve it

During the elections, rumors and false news were widely disseminated

Written by Afef Abrougui

9 April 2020

India's COVID-19 lockdown leaves vulnerable populations to fend for themselves

Many migrant workers started walking back to their hometowns

Written by Rohith Jyothish

8 April 2020

Serbian government revokes controversial COVID-19-related decree used as pretext to arrests journalists

A journalist was recently arrested for "inciting panic and unrest"

Written by Metamorphosis Foundation

7 April 2020

Hong Kong censures public broadcaster for raising question on Taiwan's WHO membership status

The station calls it a move to 'shoot the messenger'

Written by Oiwan Lam

5 April 2020

Guyana: Timeline of an election impasse

Will GECOM recount the ballots or declare a winner?

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco

2 April 2020

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