Simone Marques reports from Brazil on sports sponsorships and the coverage of the World Cup
FIFA World Cup: Brazilian press exchanges autonomy for sponsorships
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South Africa: From glory to uncomfortable glare
Olympic glory has melted in the glare of media attention shining a spotlight two athlete’s most intimate moments. Firdose Moonda reports
Turkey: Losing the freedom to mourn
Meltem Arikan shares her anger over the mine disaster that rocked Turkey — and the arrests that followed.
Russia: Vladimir Putin and the rise of swearbots
In an attempt to police Russia’s ocean of foul language, enter the swearbot, a computer programme forecast to go live this autumn, enforcing laws passed last spring. It should automate the rooting out blasphemous Russians, Alastair Sloan reports
Egypt: A chilling message and a case in uproar
A chilling message sent by award-winning photojournalist Mosa’ab El Shamy via his Twitter account on Monday, filled his 41,000 online followers with dread. Shahira Amin reports
Ben Jennings: Russia’s propaganda machine
This week cartoonist Ben Jennings takes on Vladimir Putin’s information war.
India: Religious electioneering damages secular fabric
India’s elections have been awash in campaigning that appeal to voters in religion or by instigating polarisation among different religious and ethnic communities. Saurav Datta reports
Padraig Reidy: Why does everyone want to be censored?
There is absolutely no one engaged in modern public life at any level at all who has not complained that they’ve been silenced, denied a platform, bullied into submission by a cruel cabal of agents of reaction or “the liberal agenda”, take your pick.
Press freedom in Turkey is challenged by opaque court rulings
Last Thursday, after nearly eight years of detention three journalists were among a group released from a prison near Istanbul. Catherine Stupp reports
EU adopts new guidelines on freedom of expression
New guidelines were released this week by the European Union Foreign Affairs Council specifically focusing on freedom of expression online and offline. Alice Kirkland reports