#Denmark : TV 2 host #DivyaDas targeted by deepfake manipulation, AI-images of her used for fake news on FB & Insta. TV 2 takes legal action against Meta for its role in content proliferation. #WPF denounces exploitation, urges deepfake safeguards & platform accountability.

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“We live and move by splitting the light of the present, as a canoe’s bow parts water.”

Annie Dillard, who turns 79 today, on how to draw love from your mortality themarginalian.org/2023/04/30/ann…

#WorldPressFreedomDay is Thurs May 2. Kiran Nazish heads the global Coalition for Women in Journalism #WomenInJournalism tracking and helping uphold #pressfreedom in 128 countries. Based in 🇨🇦
Media InterviewHer in English, Urdu interview-her.com/speaker/kiran-…

The moment President Biden mentioned Alsu Kurmasheva's detention really made the night for her husband Pavel Butorin. #whcd2024 #freealsu

#Cuba : Women Press Freedom denounces unjust detention of Camila Acosta during interviews with political prisoners' relatives. State Security's actions spark press freedom concerns in Cuba. We urge govt officials to cease censoring media workers & protect journalistic freedom.

#Iran : Women Press Freedom condemns 5-month prison sentence given to پریسا صالحی, along with travel & online bans, as well as exile to Zanjan. We urge the int'l community to focus on journalists' cases in dealings with Iran. We call for immediate release & exoneration of all

#Sudan : #SamarSulaiman threatened, doxxed, and falsely accused of being linked to militia group. #WPF calls for a thorough investigation into those targeting her & immediate end to attacks on press covering Sudan's devastating conflict.

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'Solitude is not chosen, any more than destiny is chosen. Solitude comes to us if we have within us the magic stone that attracts destiny.'

Hermann Hesse on solitude, the value of hardship, and the courage to be yourself themarginalian.org/2019/01/15/her…

'To all my friends in the press – and Fox News! – some of you complain that I don't take enough of your questions. No comment.'

Last night Overseas Press Club gave out a new award for “Continuing Coverage of Conflict,” to honor journalism that sustains focus on underreported conflicts & crises, especially in cases where the headlines & stories move elsewhere, awarded to Reuters for “Slaughter in Sudan'

A poignant #IStandWithEvan gathering in DC today during @WHCA weekend: WSJ brunch at the Dutch Ambassador’s residence. 'We need to all do our part' to get Evan Gershkovich home, Dow Jones CEO Almar Latour said

Marcus Aurelius, born on this day in 121, on how to begin each day – the Stoic recipe for unassailable sanity and inner peace themarginalian.org/2015/08/13/mar…

“Accept everything which happens, even if it seem disagreeable, because it leads to this, the health of the universe.”

Marcus Aurelius, born on this day in the year 121 in a world most of us would not survive, on how to live through difficult times: themarginalian.org/2018/06/19/mar…

Incredible, incredible story Los Angeles Times — beautifully told, both through words, and a grandfather's meticulous notebooks, rediscovered: How a migrant farmworker built generational wealth, penny by penny latimes.com/world-nation/s…

Committee to Protect Journalists Read John Daniszewski on the bloodiest six months recorded for journalists, and sketches of some of the fallen reporters. “The symbol of the press that journalists put on their cars,the blue vests, the blue helmets that they wear…these are no longer symbols for protection.”

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So delighted to see Paul Caruana Galizia’s brilliant writing recognised by Overseas Press Club #OPCAwards85 . 👏

Paul’s book is beautiful, shocking & vital. Please read it.

You can also take 16 minutes to hear an introduction in his interview with Miriam O'Callaghan, here rte.ie/radio/radio1/c…

Unfortunately I can't attend, but this happening NOW! And you should!

#Event : Join us on April 25, 2024, from 4:30 to 6 PM for a vital reception hosted by the Coalition For Women In Journalism, RFE/RL, and other leading press freedom organizations. Together, we stand with jailed journalists worldwide.
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