The Latest Breaking News from Reporters Without Borders

Press freedom is a fundamental pillar of democracy, but it has been declining in several EU member states. Since August, governments have to fully implement the Media Freedom Act, but some are resisting the first-ever EU regulation related to the press.

More than 250 media outlets in over 70 countries staged a front page protest Monday highlighting the deaths of scores of journalists in Israel's war against Hamas in Gaza, the Reporters Without Borders media freedom group said.

City court to hear closing arguments in media tycoon’s national security trial from 14 August

On 10 August it was revealed that five Al Jazeera journalists were killed in a targeted strike by Israel on al-Shifa Hospital near Gaza City. The Committee to Protect Journalists has said that 186 journalists were confirmed as killed since the start of Israel's military offensive in Gaza in October…

International news agencies Agence France-Presse (AFP), Associated Press (AP) and Reuters as well as the BBC on Thursday called on Israel to allow journalists in and out of Gaza, which is subject to a strict blockade.

Journalist Ekaterina Barabash was under house arrest in Moscow for 'telling the truth about the war in Ukraine'. Rather than risk a decade in Putin's prisons she chose to flee, crossing the forests of Belarus alone. Having been in Paris for two months now, she spoke to RFI about leaving…

The death of Turki al-Jasser was the first high-profile killing of a journalist since the 2018 murder of Jamal Khashoggi

The widow of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and Reporters Without Borders will launch a television channel to "promote free speech in Russia", the press freedom advocacy group said on Friday.

French-Brazilian photographer Sebastiao Salgado, famed for his immense body of work depicting wildlife, landscapes and people around the world, died Friday aged 81, announced the French Academy of Fine Arts, of which he was a member.