Rights Groups Call for ‘Joint Struggle Against Curbs’

Jan Martínez Ahrens: ‘Rarely has a free press been under greater threat’

The editor-in-chief of EL PAÍS emphasizes the newspaper’s commitment to the United States at the NAHJ annual conference: ‘We see the U.S. not as a market but as a journalistic responsibility’

Rights groups call for ‘joint struggle against curbs’

KARACHI: Speakers at a seminar on Tuesday called for greater unity among journalists, trade unions and human rights...

Press Freedom under threat, rights groups call for joint struggle against curbs

TFD NEWS KARACHI: Speakers at a seminar on Tuesday called for greater unity among journalists, trade unions and human rights organisations to resist what they described as growing restrictions on civil liberties, freedom of expression and democratic rights in Pakistan. The seminar, titled “Press Freedom and Challenging Conditions,” was jointly organised by the Karachi Union of Journalists (KUJ), the National Trade Union Federation (NTUF) and Th…

Press Freedom Threatened as U.S. Government Seizes Max Blumenthal’s Devices

Glenn Diesen | July 21, 2026 Max Blumenthal discusses how the US-Israel partnership undermines press freedom. Blumenthal is the editor-in-chief of The Grayzone, an award-winning journalist and the author of several books, including best-selling Republican Gomorrah, Goliath, The Fifty One Day War, and The Management of Savagery. He has produced print articles for an array of publications, many video reports, and several documentaries, including K…

'Corporatisation has compromised Press freedom'

Veteran social worker Sharad Patil on Monday said that increasing corporatisation of journalism has weakened press freedom by shifting the focus from public interest to profit and advertisements. He was speaking at the release of ‘Mohol’, a book written by veteran journalist and author Pravin Bardapurkar, at Shrimant Baburao Dhanwate Sabhagruha in Shankar Nagar. The event was jointly organised by Vidarbha Gaurav Pratishthan and Ram Ganesh Gadkar…