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India’s Powerful Turn to Lawfare to Stifle the Press - Nieman Reports

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New in @niemanreports.org: Media watchers say recent court orders have given Gautam Adani, the Adani Group's billionaire owner, increasing censorship powers over his critics, representing a grave threat to press freedom in India.

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A spate of new legislation in India is aimed at curbing free expression, writes Vidya Krishnan for Nieman Reports.

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A spate of new legislation in India is aimed at curbing free expression, writes Vidya Krishnan for Nieman Reports.

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Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard @niemanfoundation.bsky.social · 17h

The record death toll for news workers in Gaza is just one of the grim realities facing those still reporting as the Israel-Hamas war grinds into its third year. More from @niemanreports.org:

🔗: https://niemanreports.org/gaza-journalists-israel-palestine-war-reporting/

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Starved, Displaced, Killed: Gaza’s Journalists Persist Despite Dire Conditions - Nieman Reports

The record death toll for news workers in Gaza is just one of the grim realities facing those still reporting as the Israel-Hamas war grinds into its third year.

Starved, Displaced, Killed: Gaza’s Journalists Persist Despite Dire Conditions - Nieman Reports

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“Journalists here have this compounded suffering where they are extremely food insecure, but at the same time, they have to be strong enough to get in front of a camera and to continue reporting,” said Abdalwahab Hamad, a correspondent with TRT World.

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The record death toll for news workers in Gaza is just one of the grim realities facing those still reporting as the Israel-Hamas war grinds into its third year.

Starved, Displaced, Killed: Gaza’s Journalists Persist Despite Dire Conditions - Nieman Reports

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In a statement issued July 23, the CPJ said, “Israel is starving Gazan journalists into silence.” It joined an urgent appeal from more than 100 aid agencies to end Israel's starvation of journalists and other civilians in Gaza.

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The record death toll for news workers in Gaza is just one of the grim realities facing those still reporting as the Israel-Hamas war grinds into its third year.

Starved, Displaced, Killed: Gaza’s Journalists Persist Despite Dire Conditions - Nieman Reports

Nieman Reports @niemanreports.org · 1d

According to the @pressfreedom.bsky.social, 237 journalists and media workers have been killed since the start of the war, the vast majority of those killed are Palestinian — at least two dozen of them in targeted attacks the CPJ describes as murders.

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The record death toll for news workers in Gaza is just one of the grim realities facing those still reporting as the Israel-Hamas war grinds into its third year.

Starved, Displaced, Killed: Gaza’s Journalists Persist Despite Dire Conditions - Nieman Reports

Nieman Reports @niemanreports.org · 1d

Local journalists in Gaza remain the world’s only witnesses to the war and its atrocities. They are starved, traumatized, displaced, killed — yet managing to continue reporting from one of the most dangerous places on Earth.

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The record death toll for news workers in Gaza is just one of the grim realities facing those still reporting as the Israel-Hamas war grinds into its third year.

Starved, Displaced, Killed: Gaza’s Journalists Persist Despite Dire Conditions - Nieman Reports

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The record death toll for news workers in Gaza is just one of the grim realities facing those still reporting as the Israel-Hamas war grinds into its third year.

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Nieman Reports @niemanreports.org · 6d

Taha Siddiqui, a Pakistani journalist in exile, runs the Dissident Club, a bar and community space he opened in Paris for journalists, whistleblowers, exiles and those facing oppression.

“Even in exile, our work continues,” he told @niemanreports.org.

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After escaping an assassination attempt, Pakistani journalist Taha Siddiqui runs a Paris bar for fellow reporters and whistleblowers in exile.

Scenes from a hacker house - Nieman Storyboard

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Mark Armstrong @markarms.bsky.social · 5d

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: Featuring @kerryhowley.bsky.social @nymag.com, Kari Howard, @miasato.bsky.social, @karenpalmer.bsky.social, @brendanomeara.bsky.social, Justin Heckert.

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The San Francisco AI gold rush. Plus: Kari Howard Fund for Narrative Journalism, Justin Heckert's one that got away.

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Nieman Reports @niemanreports.org · 6d

Read our full profile of Siddiqui, owner of the Dissident Club, in @niemanreports.org.

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After escaping an assassination attempt, Pakistani journalist Taha Siddiqui runs a Paris bar for fellow reporters and whistleblowers in exile.

Nieman Reports @niemanreports.org · 6d

"I realized that all these authoritarian regimes have the same playbook when it comes to oppressing dissidents," Siddiqui said. "That motivated me to think that if [these countries] are collaborating, why should we as dissidents not do the same and get together?"

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After escaping an assassination attempt, Pakistani journalist Taha Siddiqui runs a Paris bar for fellow reporters and whistleblowers in exile.

Nieman Reports @niemanreports.org · 6d

Taha Siddiqui, a Pakistani journalist in exile, runs the Dissident Club, a bar and community space he opened in Paris for journalists, whistleblowers, exiles and those facing oppression.

“Even in exile, our work continues,” he told @niemanreports.org.

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After escaping an assassination attempt, Pakistani journalist Taha Siddiqui runs a Paris bar for fellow reporters and whistleblowers in exile.

Nepal’s Discord Revolution and the Press - Nieman Reports

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Hanaa’ Tameez @hanaatameez.bsky.social · 6d

Related reading: How the uprising in Nepal caught legacy media flat-footed, in @niemanreports.org!

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Nepal’s Discord Revolution and the Press

An uprising fomented on social media catches legacy journalism, and the world, by surprise

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An uprising fomented on social media catches legacy journalism, and the world, by surprise

It’s 2025. Do you know how secure your newsroom is?

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 11d

“If you are using AI with sensitive information, you’re just blasting a hole through your information security.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/its-...

"It was a lot easier, in some ways, for journalists back in the 80s and 90s, before all of these cloud platforms existed."

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Nieman Lab @niemanlab.org · 11d

A look inside the AI strategies at The New York Times and The Washington Post www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/a-lo...

A look inside the AI strategies at The New York Times and The Washington Post

Digiday held the most recent edition of its Digiday Publishing Summit in Miami last week, and it's been rolling out highlights from many of the sessions. You'll be shocked to learn that one big area…

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Mark Armstrong @markarms.bsky.social · 12d

My Friday newsletter for @niemanstoryboard.org: @michaelkruse.bsky.social and Bill Duryea on a 16-year partnership, plus @lillydancyger.bsky.social, @danwilsonmusic.bsky.social, @hco96.bsky.social, and Alice Driver.

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#longreads #journalism #booksky

Everybody needs an editor - Nieman Storyboard

Michael Kruse and Bill Duryea reflect on a 16-year partnership. Plus: Telling a family's story, without everyone's participation.

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Photojournalism News @pjournalismnews.bsky.social · 12d

NIEMAN FOUNDATION: Going Beyond War’s Cliches ift.tt/BJPrEel @niemanfoundation.bsky.social @niemanlab.org @niemanreports.org @anastasiatl.bsky.social #journalism #photojournalism

5K from the Frontline, a collaborative project, records Ukrainians’ day-to-day lives since the Russian invasion

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Nieman Reports @niemanreports.org · 12d

Sopova and her reporting partner, Anastasia Taylor-Lind, "wanted to shift the focus away from the spectacle of violence and onto what war looks like when it becomes part of the ordinary."

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5K from the Frontline, a collaborative project, records Ukrainians’ day-to-day lives since the Russian invasion

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Nieman Reports @niemanreports.org · 12d

"Most media coverage of conflict relies on images of tanks, soldiers, explosions, crying women ... The rest remain unseen. This produces a distorted picture that excludes the non-sensational, day-to-day experience of war," writes Alisa Sopova.

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5K from the Frontline, a collaborative project, records Ukrainians’ day-to-day lives since the Russian invasion

Nieman Reports @niemanreports.org · 12d

Going Beyond War’s Cliches: 5K from the Frontline, a collaborative project records Ukrainians’ day-to-day lives since the Russian invasion.

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5K from the Frontline, a collaborative project, records Ukrainians’ day-to-day lives since the Russian invasion