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My friend was killed for telling you the truth. Now the powerful are even more desperate to silence us | Janine di Giovanni
ByJanine di Giovanni February 26, 2026

Murderous governments and armed groups always considered reporters like Marie Colvin a nuisance – now they see them as legitimate targetsA friend wrote to me last week to tell me that my name appeared in the Epstein files. “But it’s for a good cause,” …

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Israeli journalists fear for press freedom if UK billionaire sells TV channel stake
ByJulian Borger in Jerusalem February 13, 2026

Union urges Leonard Blavatnik to scrap Channel 13 deal, saying it is part of Netanyahu plan ‘to capture the media’Israeli journalists have appealed to a British billionaire not to proceed with the sale of a stake in an Israeli television channel, which…

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Trump-led abuses amid ‘democratic recession’ put human rights in peril, HRW report says
ByKaren McVeigh February 4, 2026

Rights group says growing authoritarianism and abuses in US, Russia and China threaten global rules-based orderThe world is in a “democratic recession” with almost three-quarters of the global population now living under autocratic rulers – levels not …

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International journalists urge Israel to allow reporters into Gaza after ceasefire deal
ByJoseph Gedeon in Washington October 11, 2025

Foreign Press Association joins long list of global media agencies demanding press freedom in devastated territoryInternational journalists in Israel have called for reporters to be granted immediate access to Gaza after the rapidly negotiated ceasefir…

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Gaza has become journalism’s graveyard. Killing journalists is killing the truth | Anthony Bellanger
ByAnthony Bellanger October 3, 2025

If we accept that reporters die in Gaza, we pave the way for other regimes to consider the murder of journalists a normal instrument of warHistory will only be kind to witnesses. In Gaza, it will remember the name of Anas al-Sharif, a young Al Jazeera …

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Gaza has become journalism’s graveyard. Killing journalists is killing the truth | Anthony Bellanger
ByAnthony Bellanger October 3, 2025

If we accept that reporters die in Gaza, we pave the way for other regimes to consider the murder of journalists a normal instrument of warHistory will only be kind to witnesses. In Gaza, it will remember the name of Anas al-Sharif, a young Al Jazeera …

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Brothers, cousins, sons: the human stories behind four of the war’s fallen journalists
ByAseel Mousa September 1, 2025

Six Palestinian media workers, four of them Al Jazeera journalists, were killed in a targeted Israeli airstrike on their tent by Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital on 10 August. Here, some of their families pay tribute Journalist Continue reading…

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The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war
ByAnnie Kelly September 1, 2025

With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever Continue reading…

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The deadly toll on journalists in the Gaza war
ByAnnie Kelly September 1, 2025

With foreign media barred, Palestinians have reported alone, facing the ‘most deliberate effort to kill and silence’ them ever Continue reading…

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The Guardian view on the killing of Gaza’s journalists: Israel wants to stop the world from seeing what it’s doing | Editorial
ByEditorial August 31, 2025

This is the most lethal war for the media in recent times. A generation of journalists is being wiped outDay by day, the death toll rises, the war crimes mount, and the outrage grows. Last Wednesday, the pope demanded that Israel stop its “collect…

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