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EC to review media guidelines for fair polls

The election commission on Thursday said that it would review and, if needed, amend the guidelines for journalists as their cooperation was crucial for transparent elections...

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Betrayal of Palestinian journalists

THERE are two types of war correspondents. The first type does not attend press conferences. They do not beg generals and politicians for interviews. They take risks to report from combat zones. They send back to their viewers or readers what they see, which is almost always diametrically opposed to official narratives. This first type, in every war, is a tiny minority...

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International media protest over journalist deaths in Gaza

More than 250 media outlets in over 70 countries staged a front page protest Monday highlighting the deaths of scores of journalists in Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, the Reporters Without Borders media freedom group said.

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Trump moves to limit US stays of students, journalists

President Donald Trump’s administration moved Thursday to impose stricter limits on how long foreign students and journalists can stay in the United States, the latest bid to tighten legal immigration in the country.

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Families of 5 martyred journalists cry for justice

Families of the five journalists, killed during the past year’s July mass uprising, said that justice for the martyrs seemed elusive as there had been no progress in the process even after a year since the uprising...

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BJWT honours journalists killed, injured in uprising

The Bangladesh Journalists Welfare Trust, under the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, on Sunday honoured the families of martyred journalists and those who were injured during the July uprising past year...

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Six journalists hurt in attack on DRU

A case was filed on Thursday over an attack carried out allegedly by a collaborator of the Awami League and his supporters on the premises of Dhaka Reporters Unity in the capital Dhaka on Wednesday night...

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ASK condemns dismissal of 3 journalists

Rights organisation Ain O Salish Kendra on Wednesday condemned incidents of dismissal of three journalists from different media outlets losing their jobs...

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Govt should effectively deal with threats to journalists

ATTACKS on and harassment of journalists are reported to have surged, especially beginning with February after such incidents came down that had a worrying increase since August 2024, when the prime minister Sheikh Hasina was deposed in a mass uprising and an interim government assumed office three days later. Rights group Ain O Salish Kendra data report that...

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Israeli strikes kill 9 in Gaza

Gaza’s civil defence agency said nine people, including journalists, were killed in Israeli strikes in the north Saturday, an attack Hamas denounced as a ‘blatant violation’ of the fragile ceasefire...

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124 journalists killed last year: CPJ

Last year was the deadliest for journalists in recent history, with at least 124 reporters killed — and Israel responsible for nearly 70 per cent of that total, the Committee to Protect Journalists reported Wednesday...

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3 journalists injured by BNP activists at SC

At least three journalists were injured in an attack on Wednesday, allegedly carried out by Bangladesh Nationalist Party activists on the Supreme Court premises...

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Violence against journalists must end

THE assault on four journalists near the deputy commissioner’s office in Shariatpur by miscreants is alarming. The attack, reportedly in retaliation for news exposing medical negligence in a local hospital, highlights the growing hostility towards the press and the lack of security of journalists, especially those who work in districts. Witnesses say that...

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Four journalists injured in attack for publishing news

Four Shariatpur-based journalists were injured in an attack by a group of miscreants in front of the deputy commissioner’s office in the district town on Monday reportedly for publishing news over the negligence of doctors at a hospital...

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Retrial of journalist Manik Saha killing demanded

Politicians and journalists at a human chain in Dhaka on Wednesday demanded the retrial into the case of killing of freedom fighter and Ekushey Padak-winning journalist Manik Chandra Saha...

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Holding powerful quarters accountable underscored

Speakers including development professionals, academics and journalists at an event on Sunday said that development journalism was not meant for producing ‘positive stories’ as part of any power quarters’ propaganda, but for holding them accountable to the people...

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104 journalists killed in 2024, over half in Gaza

This year has been ‘particularly deadly’ for journalists with 104 killed worldwide, over half of them being in Gaza, the International Federation of Journalists said Tuesday...

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Contents should be inspiring: seminar

Speakers including journalists, content creators and media activists at a seminar on Saturday said that contents should be inspiring and that they aimed to entertain audiences instead of mimicking different cultural values...