Katie Zacharia, the newly appointed White House press secretary, is facing questions about whether she is licensed to practise law in the United States after being unable to identify a state where
Katie Zacharia, the newly appointed White House press secretary, is facing questions about whether she is licensed to practise law in the United States after being unable to identify a state where
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Ecuadorian newspaper Expreso has ended its print edition after 53 years, with its publisher blaming months of alleged government pressure for a financial crisis that has threatened the survival of the publication.
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Cristina Pardo, one of Spain’s best-known political journalists, says she has deliberately resisted being placed on either side of the country’s increasingly polarised political divide. After 20 years in television, Pardo, 49,
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At least 117 journalists and media workers have fled Yemen’s western coastal city of Mocha and surrounding areas after Houthi forces advanced into the region, with many leaving their homes, workplaces and
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Bangladesh’s journalists are facing a deepening crisis of violence, intimidation, legal harassment and surveillance, with attacks coming not only from political activists and criminal elements but also from Islamist organisations and, in
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by Our Correspondent in Colombo China’s Yunnan province is seeking to expand media cooperation, people-to-people exchanges and youth programmes with Sri Lanka, while promoting wider collaboration in culture, tourism, agriculture, digital development
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Note From the Editorial Team Nineteen years ago today, on 16 August 2007, we began. Nineteen years after we began during Sri Lanka’s civil war, governments have changed, crises have multiplied and
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At Stanley prison, on the southern edge of Hong Kong Island, Jimmy Lai’s solitary confinement extends far beyond the walls of his cell. According to his family, the 78-year-old is held alone
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The killing of Oaxaca journalist Francisco Alejandro Leyva Aguilar has become the latest in a string of murders that, according to press freedom organisations and reporting by El País, reveal a persistent
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Foreign correspondents working in China say pressure, surveillance and intimidation have become embedded in their daily work, with nearly all respondents to a new survey concluding that reporting conditions in the country
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Internet Media Action (IMA) has condemned the decision to summon two BBC Sinhala journalists before Parliament’s Committee on Ethics and Privileges, describing the move as an attempt to intimidate the media and
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The sinking of an Iranian frigate in India’s backyard, closer to Sri Lanka’s southern coast, in early March this year, a few days after the eruption of war after the unprovoked Israeli-US
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Ten years ago, Turkish journalist and writer Ece Temelkuran made a phone call she never expected to make. Speaking to her mother from Zagreb, she delivered a sentence that many migrants fear
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A federal judge has ordered U.S. President Donald Trump to pay $5.8 million in compensation to writer E. Jean Carroll after the Supreme Court rejected his request to overturn a jury award
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For decades, Sri Lanka has been marked on the world map as the “Pearl of the Indian Ocean”—a tropical paradise for travelers. However, recent data and chilling revelations suggest that a dark
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