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Jailing Hundreds of Journalists Worldwide Is the ‘New Normal,’ Group Finds
The Committee to Protect Journalists, an advocacy group, said more than 250 journalists were imprisoned worldwide for the third consecutive year.
Time Names Person of the Year for 2018: Jamal Khashoggi and Other Journalists
The honorees, called “the guardians of truth,” included the staff of the Capital Gazette newspapers in Maryland, two Reuters journalists imprisoned in Myanmar and a journalist in the Philippines.
Heather Nauert’s Pick as U.N. Envoy Hints at Reshaping of the Role
President Trump said Ms. Nauert “has done a great job” at the State Department. But she would bring less experience in government or international affairs to her new job than almost anyone who has had it.
Philippine Journalist, a Thorn to Duterte, Turns Herself In to Face Charges
Maria Ressa, a veteran journalist, was charged with five counts of tax fraud in what her news organization, Rappler, said was part of a broader attack on the news media by the government.
Killings of Journalists Show the Bloody Fingerprints of Organized Crime
More than two dozen journalists worldwide have been killed by members of organized crime since the start of 2017, according to a report by Reporters Without Borders.
Orban and His Allies Cement Control of Hungary’s News Media
Hundreds of private outlets were simultaneously donated by their owners to a holding company run by allies of Hungary’s far-right prime minister.
Times Insider: Starving Babies, Molotov Cocktails and Death Threats: One Photojournalist’s Venezuelan Reality
Meridith Kohut, an American photographer who frequently freelances for The Times, feels “a moral obligation to stay” and bear witness to the horrors of Venezuela’s economic collapse.
A Hot Seat for Facebook, an Empty Chair for Zuckerberg and a Vow to Share Secret Files
At a hearing in London, officials from nine countries criticized the social network and said they planned to release internal Facebook documents soon.
Times Insider: How New York Times Journalists Took the Measure of China’s Rising Power
A Q. and A. with our managing editor, Joe Kahn, about the China Rules series.