A Moscow court on April 12 sentenced four former editors of independent student-led news outlet DOXA to two years of “correctional labor” over a video in which they defended young Russians’ freedom of assembly. The court ruled that the three-minute …
A journalist in Mexico was shot to death on March 15, bringing the toll of such killings to eight this year. Armando Linares, the director of the western Mexican news website Monitor Michoacan website, was killed in the afternoon outside …
Hong Kong’s government has accused the Economist magazine of being biased after publishing an article about the city’s recent Legislative Council election. The Economist article detailed how the Dec. 19 city election was vetted so only “patriots” could run for …
Hong Kong prosecutors have filed a ‘seditious publications’ charge against jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai on Tuesday. The additional sedition charge accused Lai of conspiracy to print, publish, sell and distribute “seditious publications” between April 2019 and June 24, 2021. …
Queen Elizabeth declined the Oldie of the Year award from a British monthly magazine, saying “you are as old as you feel.” “Her Majesty believes you are as old as you feel, as such The Queen does not believe she …
On Thursday, Reuters News announced it will begin charging users $34.99 a month to access its website. The company, known as one of the largest news organizations in the world, also revealed plans for a redesigned website targeting a “professional” …
Fashion magazine Elle announced on Dec. 2 that it has pledged to ban the promotion of animal fur in all its editorial and advertising content worldwide. At the 2021 Voices conference organized by The Business of Fashion publication in Oxfordshire, …
Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed “Afghan Girl” from the 1985 National Geographic magazine cover, has received refugee status from the Italian government. “Afghan citizen Sharbat Gula has arrived in Rome,” the Presidency of the Council of Ministers in Italy said in …
Queen Elizabeth declined the Oldie of the Year award from a British monthly magazine, saying “you are as old as you feel.” “Her Majesty believes you are as old as you feel, as such The Queen does not believe she …
A Paris court found a conservative French magazine guilty of making racist comments under French hate speech rules on Wednesday for a fictional tale it published last year picturing a politician as an enslaved African auctioned in the 18th century. …
