You are here: Homepage Tag journalism Articles Media | Syria "We offer an alternative to propaganda and hate" The team behind Enab Baladi, the revolutionary media organisation founded at the start of the 2011 uprising, has returned to Syria. Co-founder Kholoud Helmi explains why their presence in Damascus is more crucial than ever. Interview with Kholoud Helmi 08/07/2025 Archivi.ng is a virtual map of Nigeria's past Foto: Archivi.ng Living history | Nigera Scanning Nigeria's history In Lagos, a small team is digitising dusty newspapers and forgotten magazines – and putting them online. Their mission: to save Nigeria's collective memory By Jess Smee 08/07/2025 Helon Habila at a talk in Abuja Photo: private Literature | Personal history Living words The writer Helon Habila grew up in Nigeria, later moved to the UK and now lives in the USA. In his books he revisits the people, places and politics he has experienced first-hand By Helon Habila 12/19/2024 Protest by PiS supporters in Krakow on December 30, 2023 Photo: NurPhoto / Getty Images Press freedom | Poland An uncertain future After coming to power in 2015, the Polish PiS transformed public television in Poland into a propaganda machine. In 2023, the new Prime Minister Donald Tusk immediately set about restoring the independence of the state media. But the dismantling of democratic controls had been thorough By Jacek Lepiarz 12/09/2024 Adeeb al-Janani, a reporter for the private Yemeni television station Belqees TV, was killed at the airport in Aden on 30 December 2020 while reporting on the return of the Yemeni government from negotiations in Saudi Arabia. A large crowd of people attended his funeral in Taizz Photo: Hussam Al-Qoliaa Freedom of the press | Yemen Assassinated, imprisoned, exiled A complex civil war with international involvement has been raging in Yemen for years. It is extremely dangerous for journalists to pursue their profession, Yemeni journalists still pay a heavy price for the civil war. Many have left the country and young reporters with no training are taking their place By Samia al-Aghbary 10/17/2024 Identified as a fake: In this image, a Chinese soldier appears to be watching a Taiwanese frigate just off the coast of Taiwan Photo: Taiwan FactCheck Center Media | Taiwan “We’re in the middle of an information war” Manipulated images, cyberattacks and viral fake news: digital disinformation is commonplace in Taiwan. Ho Hui-An of the Taiwan FactCheck Center on fighting against the tide Interview with Ho Hui-An 06/01/2023 A man reads Granma, a daily newspaper of the Communist Party of Cuba Photo: Yamil Lage / Getty Images Freedom of press | Cuba Threatened, interrogated, fired The atmosphere for journalists in Cuba is increasingly tense. As a last resort, they are turning to the internet - or exile By Eileen Sosin Martínez 01/09/2023 A Taliban fighter sits on the shoulders of anonymized women who can’t speak out and whose hands are bound Illustration: Uzra Shamal for KULTURAUSTAUSCH Media | Afghanistan Cartoons vs. the Taliban What does it mean to report on politics in Afghanistan? The Afghan journalist Uzra Shamal talks about her work and why she chose an unusual form of reporting: the cartoon 10/14/2022 Illustration © Musonda Kabwe, Johannesburg Travel writing | South Africa On the road Is there something to be learned from traveling? South African writer Lerato Mogoatlhe has traveled to thirty African countries – and learned a lot about herself in the process By Lerato Mogoatlhe 08/14/2022 People look after a military plane taking off in Kabul lPhoto: Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times / Getty Images Transition of power | Afghanistan “The retreat started years ago” Radio host and journalist Waheedulaah Orya reported from the Afghan city of Mazar e-Sharif – until the Taliban threatened his life. From his exile in Greece he describes watching in disbelief as they recaptured his home country. A conversation Interview with Waheedullah Orya 10/01/2021 Heroes Glorious snack How New York's glorious "hero sandwich" munched its way onto the US literary scene. By Timothy W. Donohoe 05/02/2018 An atmosphere of mistrust In Rumania authors face a tax hike. That is dangerous for freedom of expression. By Mariana Gorczyca 05/02/2018
Media | Syria "We offer an alternative to propaganda and hate" The team behind Enab Baladi, the revolutionary media organisation founded at the start of the 2011 uprising, has returned to Syria. Co-founder Kholoud Helmi explains why their presence in Damascus is more crucial than ever. Interview with Kholoud Helmi 08/07/2025
Archivi.ng is a virtual map of Nigeria's past Foto: Archivi.ng Living history | Nigera Scanning Nigeria's history In Lagos, a small team is digitising dusty newspapers and forgotten magazines – and putting them online. Their mission: to save Nigeria's collective memory By Jess Smee 08/07/2025
Helon Habila at a talk in Abuja Photo: private Literature | Personal history Living words The writer Helon Habila grew up in Nigeria, later moved to the UK and now lives in the USA. In his books he revisits the people, places and politics he has experienced first-hand By Helon Habila 12/19/2024
Protest by PiS supporters in Krakow on December 30, 2023 Photo: NurPhoto / Getty Images Press freedom | Poland An uncertain future After coming to power in 2015, the Polish PiS transformed public television in Poland into a propaganda machine. In 2023, the new Prime Minister Donald Tusk immediately set about restoring the independence of the state media. But the dismantling of democratic controls had been thorough By Jacek Lepiarz 12/09/2024
Adeeb al-Janani, a reporter for the private Yemeni television station Belqees TV, was killed at the airport in Aden on 30 December 2020 while reporting on the return of the Yemeni government from negotiations in Saudi Arabia. A large crowd of people attended his funeral in Taizz Photo: Hussam Al-Qoliaa Freedom of the press | Yemen Assassinated, imprisoned, exiled A complex civil war with international involvement has been raging in Yemen for years. It is extremely dangerous for journalists to pursue their profession, Yemeni journalists still pay a heavy price for the civil war. Many have left the country and young reporters with no training are taking their place By Samia al-Aghbary 10/17/2024
Identified as a fake: In this image, a Chinese soldier appears to be watching a Taiwanese frigate just off the coast of Taiwan Photo: Taiwan FactCheck Center Media | Taiwan “We’re in the middle of an information war” Manipulated images, cyberattacks and viral fake news: digital disinformation is commonplace in Taiwan. Ho Hui-An of the Taiwan FactCheck Center on fighting against the tide Interview with Ho Hui-An 06/01/2023
A man reads Granma, a daily newspaper of the Communist Party of Cuba Photo: Yamil Lage / Getty Images Freedom of press | Cuba Threatened, interrogated, fired The atmosphere for journalists in Cuba is increasingly tense. As a last resort, they are turning to the internet - or exile By Eileen Sosin Martínez 01/09/2023
A Taliban fighter sits on the shoulders of anonymized women who can’t speak out and whose hands are bound Illustration: Uzra Shamal for KULTURAUSTAUSCH Media | Afghanistan Cartoons vs. the Taliban What does it mean to report on politics in Afghanistan? The Afghan journalist Uzra Shamal talks about her work and why she chose an unusual form of reporting: the cartoon 10/14/2022
Illustration © Musonda Kabwe, Johannesburg Travel writing | South Africa On the road Is there something to be learned from traveling? South African writer Lerato Mogoatlhe has traveled to thirty African countries – and learned a lot about herself in the process By Lerato Mogoatlhe 08/14/2022
People look after a military plane taking off in Kabul lPhoto: Marcus Yam / Los Angeles Times / Getty Images Transition of power | Afghanistan “The retreat started years ago” Radio host and journalist Waheedulaah Orya reported from the Afghan city of Mazar e-Sharif – until the Taliban threatened his life. From his exile in Greece he describes watching in disbelief as they recaptured his home country. A conversation Interview with Waheedullah Orya 10/01/2021
Heroes Glorious snack How New York's glorious "hero sandwich" munched its way onto the US literary scene. By Timothy W. Donohoe 05/02/2018
An atmosphere of mistrust In Rumania authors face a tax hike. That is dangerous for freedom of expression. By Mariana Gorczyca 05/02/2018
