South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) has received an overwhelming majority of media coverage ahead of the country’s fifth democratic election which is it expected to win. Firdose Moonda reports
The shocking news of the death of democracy advocate and widely acclaimed Egyptian blogger, Bassem Sabry on April 29, hit me like a lightning bolt, Shahira Amin writes
The campaign for media freedom in the Gambia lobbied the United Nations to push the global body to take measures to address media freedom in the West African state.
Julia Farrington travelled to Northern Ireland to participate in the 2014 Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival in Belfast. While there she saw four plays that deal with the Troubles as Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, was questioned by police
On the eve of World Press Freedom Day, we look back at some of the threats faced by journalists in the last 12 months
Chinese fans of American TV have been dealt a serious blow after some of their favorite shows were removed from the country’s main video streaming websites. Jemimah Steinfeld reports on the withdrawal symptoms of the country’s youths
We should enjoy the football and praise the players, but we owe it to brave Azerbaijanis to ask some tough questions about Atlético’s relationship with Ilham Aliyev’s repressive regime, Padraig Reidy writes
India was among the few governments that did not sign the NETmundial outcome statement. But why does it seem that the world’s largest democracy is not putting its weight behind a “bottom-up, open, and participatory” multistakeholder process? Mahima Kaul reports
Reforms are on the cards for internet governance, but no one seems to be clear what exactly these will do to the way the web is used. Sentiments of doom and gloom mix with utopian forecasts of freedom, Binoy Kampmark writes
Do we have the right to not be offended? Newtownabbey council said “yes” when they cancelled what they labelled a blasphemous play, writes Katie Dancey.