The world’s biggest football tournament arrives under a cloud of press freedom concerns
Detention warning for journalists covering 2026 World Cup
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2026 World Cup: Between freedom of expression and the beautiful game
As the biggest tournament in world football begins, some are asking whether FIFA is doing enough to promote the sport’s unifying nature
Kurt Vonnegut’s daughter is following in his footsteps
When Slaughterhouse-Five was burned by a North Dakota school, its writer acted. Half a century later Nanette Vonnegut is also challenging book bans
China’s Xi is everything Trump aspires to be
The US President’s praise of the Chinese leader underscores his fascination with authoritarian rulers
Index honours Virginia Giuffre and Sarah Wynn-Williams with the Freedom to Publish Award
The authors were awarded for their bravery in standing up to rich and powerful people
The postponement of RightsCon: Another case of the dragon’s hold on Africa?
The event was due to be held in a venue partly funded by China and follows a Zambian environmental disaster involving a Chinese state firm
Smearing, harassing, criminalising and killing is no longer the exception for journalists
Read below former Index CEO and now the chief executive of the Committee to Project Journalists Jodie Ginsberg’s powerful James Cameron Memorial Lecture delivered before the targeted killing this week by Israeli forces of a three-strong Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese television crew
Throwing free expression to the wolves is not the way to protect kids
Beware regimes which use “child protection” as a way to censor
Truth dies when you fire the fact-checkers
Experts who can spot the red flags and contextualise the information we receive aren’t free-speech enemies
The US media must stand up to Donald Trump’s assault on its freedom
If the signs weren’t there already, the US President’s speech at Davos made clear his intention to tighten his stranglehold on the free press
Smears about the media made by US President Donald Trump have obscured a wider problem with press freedom in the United States: namely widespread and low-level animosity that feeds into the everyday working lives of the nation’s journalists, bloggers and media professionals. This study examines documented reports from across the country in the six months leading up to the presidential inauguration and the months after. It clearly shows that threats to US press freedom go well beyond the Oval Office.
“Animosity toward the press comes in many forms. Journalists are targeted in several ways: from social media trolling to harassment by law enforcement to over-the-top public criticism by those in the highest office. The negative atmosphere for journalists is damaging for the public and their right to information,” said Jodie Ginsberg, CEO at Index on Censorship, which documented the cases using an approach undertaken by the organization to monitor press freedom in Europe over the past three years. Learn more.