Global Journalist Security

08/27/2026

Reuters Editor-in-Chief Alessandra Galloni and AP Executive Editor Julie Pace on the 1st anniversary of the killing of five journalists including several working for both organizations at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in southern Gaza that killed 17 other civilians and injured over 50 more people.

"The strikes on Aug. 25, 2025, killed five journalists, including Reuters cameraman Hussam al-Masri; visual journalist Mariam Dagga, who worked for AP and other news organizations; and Moaz Abu Taha, a freelance journalist whose work had been published by Reuters. They were at the hospital in their professional capacity, doing critical work to keep the world informed.

"A year later, we remain devastated by their deaths and are still searching for answers from the Israeli authorities about what happened that day. The strikes that killed them occurred at a hospital, a location protected under international law and one that was widely known to be crucial for news coverage out of Gaza. The information we have received to date has fallen short of the clear answers and accountability that an incident of this gravity requires. Reuters also continues to seek answers over the killing by Israeli tank fire on Oct. 13, 2023 of visuals journalist Issam Abdallah in southern Lebanon."

https://www.reuters.com/media-center/statement-reuters-editor-in-chief-alessandra-galloni-ap-executive-editor-julie-2026-08-25/?fbclid=IwY2xjawT9PSVwZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkEDIyMjAzOTE3ODgyMDA4OTIAAR5yThsxLrDd3tBXjsTQDB-8vW7xmR-8y-IDtMR9mOA-rHysLQHJXgubvNFFhg_aem_NRa70UXs9myTBlEe8-ZZGA

Reuters Editor-in-Chief Alessandra Galloni and AP Executive Editor Julie Pace today issued the following statement regarding the August 2025 strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza:

08/08/2026

We honor our friend and colleauge,Stefano Marcelli. He was a legendary polyglot of a journalist who always made time for friends and press freedom.

You will be surely missed, Stefano. Our condolences to Gerta and your daughter and son.

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https://albanianpost.com/lamtumire-stefano-marcelli/?fbclid=IwY2xjawTje4ZwZG9mBWV4dG4DYWVtAjEwAGJyaWQRMVUxb3EyY2YxN2t3UEw0Q2dzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeggJu91MIvhlQ4-3jec3bS64PEGzxqrz2BmrSoKsxwI_d-U6-m1qvxAuLmzc_aem_6sQw2_ilStMV47La3S7QUg

Nuk ishte shqiptar nga lindja, por u bë i tillë nga zgjedhja. Stefano Marcelli, gazetari italian me mbi pesë dekada përvojë në profesion, u nda nga jeta në Firence, qytetin ku lindi dhe ndërtoi karrierën e tij të gjatë duke lënë pas jo vetëm një trashëgimi profesionale të jashtëzak...

07/27/2026

The picture that he could not live with.

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Photographer Kevin Carter died on this day, July the 27th in 1994.

Carter is shown here alongside his best known image, an image which won him a Pulitzer prize in 1994.

His 1993 image is of a boy named Kong Nyong and depicted an ongoing famine in Sudan.

Kevin, one of the photographers immortalised in the book 'The Bang-Bang club', committed su***de a few months after winning the Pulitzer, in his su***de note he wrote:

'I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings & corpses & anger & pain ... of starving or wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners'

Kong died thirteen years after the image was taken.

Kevin died one year after the image was taken, he was 33.
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Famine image: Kevin Carter.
Image of Carter: Rebecca Heartfield - CC3 Licence

07/22/2026

"For most of America’s newsrooms, though, this kind of reporting is no longer in the cards. Back in 2008, when Sennott took a buyout from the Boston Globe to start a site called GlobalPost, foreign coverage was in crisis. Now, he says, “it’s a full-on house on fire for all of journalism. The roof was foreign coverage, and then it burned through the floors and now we’re into the foundation.” Statehouse coverage, city hall reporting—accountability journalism of any kind is going up in smoke."
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Foreign coverage is getting more difficult and dangerous—and scarce.

07/16/2026

Press Freedom in the United States takes another hit.

Washington, D.C., July 16, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns the Trump administration’s decision to impose new visa restrictions on international correspondents, abandoning a decades-old policy enabling foreign journalists to report from the United States without fear that their visa status could be weaponized against them.

https://cpj.org/2026/07/cpj-condemns-trump-administration-rule-restricting-international-correspondents-access-to-the-united-states/?fbclid=IwY2xjawTGMz9leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeJ2aMgGHHWNNLv8JeQfwuwKq894jR65KWrqks2Gvlz9nHWli3hDMXo13PAVg_aem_hKNJW1azdoJLkVRZNE2liw

Washington, D.C., July 16, 2026—The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns the Trump administration’s decision to impose new visa restrictions on international correspondents, abandoning a decades-old policy enabling foreign journalists to report from the United States without fear t...

07/13/2026

“It never would have happened?”

07/13/2026

What’s journalism in some nations like?

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Patricia Evangelista is an investigative journalist for the Filipino news website Rappler and author of Some People Need Killing (2023), a memoir about her time reporting on the so-called war on drugs in the Philippines.

In this video from the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Evangelista reflects on the purpose of her work and the extraordinary toll that covering topics such as these can take.

https://aeon.co/videos/a-filipino-journalist-on-the-terrible-privilege-of-bearing-witness

07/08/2026

"Press freedom group The Committee to Protect Journalists is reviewing how it identifies and records journalists killed in war zones.

"The move follows the CPJ wrongly naming combatants as slain reporters in its database for the Israel–Gaza war after the militant groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad published obituaries unmasking as fighters individuals previously listed as journalists. Members of the media, and especially war correspondents, are protected in war zones by international law if they do not actively engage in hostilities."

The Committee to Protect Journalists says Palestinian militant groups published obituaries for fighters earlier listed as reporters, prompting the removal of their names.

07/06/2026

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