Journalism

Azerbaijani journalist Ayten Mammadova was assaulted in the building where she lives in the capital Baku, an threatened at knifepoint by an unknown man who warned against reporting over an ongoing trial.

Azerbaijani Journalist Threatened Over High-Profile Trial

Rights organisations maintain that systematic lack of action in investigating such crimes serves to empower perpetrators.

13 May 22

Most media content in Kharkiv has shifted online.

How Kharkiv’s Media Adapted to War

Production continues, despite almost no revenue and the constant danger of physical - and cyber – attack.

3 May 22

Kyiv Shelling, Saturday 30 April '22

At the site of the bomb blast which killed a Radio Svoboda journalist.

3 May 22

Diana Berg in Lviv train station holding her Donetsk and Mariupol house keys. © Cheppel Volodymyr

Mariupol’s True Horror is Yet to Emerge

“To understand what's happening, you have to multiply Bucha and Irpin and Borodyanka a hundred times.”

25 Apr 22

A rally and a street exhibition in memory of the journalists who died in the war, Lviv, March 31, 2022. © IWPR

Ukraine: Journalists “Are Russia’s First Target”

Numbers of dead and wounded media workers mount as conflict continues.

22 Apr 22

Streaming studio of the YouTube channel Kotrikadze-Dzyadko. Tikhon Dzyadko and Ekaterina Kotrikadze, respectively editor-in-chief and news director of Dozhd TV, relocated to Georgia after Russia's last independent TV channel closed its operations on March 4. © Photo courtesy of Ekaterina Kotrikadze

Russia: The Fight for Independent Media Continues

Despite the crackdown that followed the invasion of Ukraine, journalists carry on the battle for free expression.

4 Apr 22

Saturday, 2 Apr '22 in Lviv, Ukraine

"Fixers are really the critical building blocks of so much of the journalism from Ukraine."

2 Apr 22

Oleh Baturin was kidnapped on March 12 and subjected to eight days of physical and psychological pressure before being released. © Photo courtesy of O. Baturin

Ukraine: Kidnapped Journalist Speaks Out

“I heard screams, heard others being interrogated. They were simply tortured.”

28 Mar 22

Thursday, 17 Mar '22 in Lviv, Ukraine

“We will contribute with training and with support to help cover the story.”

17 Mar 22

Local journalists at work in central station on March 2, 2022 in Kyiv, Ukraine. Russian forces continued their advance on the Ukrainian capital as the country's invasion of its western neighbour entered its seventh day. © Pierre Crom/Getty Images

Ukraine’s Local Media Organises

Scattered, few in number and lacking protective equipment, journalists collaborate to share news across the country.

4 Mar 22

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