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Over 150 groups urge President Obama to protect whistleblowers and journalists
via pen-international

In a joint letter, over 150 IFEX members and partners of ARTICLE 19 appealed to US President Obama to drop charges against whistleblower Edward Snowden, update the Whistleblower Protection Act and pass a media shield law. The letter, initiated by ARTICLE...
Media reforms: lessons from a narrow escape to a fragile freedom
via theconversation

It is just a week since the Gillard government withdrew the four media reform bills for which it could not garner the necessary support from the crossbench MPs. The proposal that concerned me most as a media law scholar and free expression advocate...
Law and Media Round Up – 30 January 2017
via inforrm.wordpress

There was a three day media law hearing in the Supreme Court this week, with the Daily Mail, the Times and Mirror Group using the Human Rights Act to challenge conditional fee agreements. These newspapers have refused to join a recognised regulator...
Bibliography of internet activism and social protest in Malaysia
via johnpostill

Work in progress. Last updated 22 September 2013. Southeast Asia boasts a pioneering history of digital activism and mobilisation, from the use of mailing lists in 1989 to protest against the Tiannamen Square massacre, the reformasi movements that ushered...
Will Free Expression Equal Terrorism in Zimbabwe?
via ipsnews

Journalists from the weekly Sunday Mail as they were arrested on Nov. 4, 2015 on charges of reporting falsehoods. Pictured from left to right in handcuffs are the journalists, who included the Sunday Mail reporter Tinashe Farawo, the paper's investigations...