As part of INSI's commitment to protect journalists, we spoke to Black and ethnic minority journalists working in British newsrooms about the challenges they face covering racial injustice, while working in a media industry with an entrenched lack of diversity and representation at all levels.
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In October 2020, veteran Brazilian journalist Yan Boechat went to a war zone for the first time since the pandemic. With bombs shaking the streets and adrenaline pumping, masks and hand sanitiser couldn’t have been further from his mind. He tells INSI the story of what happened next.
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INSI is proud to support a new resource aimed at helping news organisations to cover the pandemic professionally and in a way that minimises risk.
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A journalist and a driver were killed when a private bus carrying employees of an Afghan television station was hit by a roadside bomb in the capital, Kabul, the network's news director and officials have said.
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The US is reeling from the worst violence it has seen for many years. The protests, which began after an unarmed black man, George Floyd, was suffocated to death, are dividing the country and highlighting long-standing injustices and conflicts.
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Journalist Jorge Armenta has been killed in an "armed attack" in Mexico's northern Sonora state, according to authorities.
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Guatemalan authorities should conduct a swift and thorough investigation into the killing of journalist Bryan Guerra, determine if it was related to his journalism, and bring those responsible to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
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A Philippine radio broadcaster from the central island of Negros has been shot dead, becoming the third media worker slain in Dumaguete City since 2018 and the 16th nationwide since President Rodrigo Duterte came to office in June 2016.
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World Press Freedom Day will be celebrated on 3 May worldwide and this year feels more important than ever. One can scarcely underestimate the importance of a free press in a situation such as the one that we now find ourselves in.
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Brazilian journalist Lourenço Veras, known as Léo Veras, editor-in-chief of the website Porã News, was assassinated on the night of Feb. 12 in Pedro Juan Caballero, Paraguay. The city is next to the Brazi’s Ponta Porã.
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