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The mobile messaging app Telegram is popular in Iran, where citizens who have limited access to uncensored news and mainstream social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, use it to share and access information. But the app's estimated 20 million users in Iran, including those who use Telegram to report and communicate with sources, could be putting themselves at severe risk of data compromise, security experts warn.
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This is one of the biggest news story in Nicaragua since Ortega and his fellow Sandinista rebels overthrew the Somoza dictatorship in the 1979 revolution. But there’s little information for reporters.
When Nicaragua began preliminary work on a 50 billion dollar interoceanic waterway designed to handle ships too big for the Panama Canal, some of the foreign correspondents who had flown in to cover the December groundbreaking were left high and dry.
Government officials told them to wait in a Managua hotel for a bus that would transport them to the ribbon-cutting ceremony, according to the Nicaragua Dispatch. But the bus never showed up.
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The Ebola crisis in West Africa is unrelenting, and journalists on the frontline of reporting on the virus are caught between authorities wanting to control how the outbreak is reported, and falling victim to the disease themselves.
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Journalists risk their lives traveling to some of the most dangerous places in the world to bring us information about current events. We were reminded of how dangerous this work can be with the executions of journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff by ISIS. Journalists have a right to gather and report the news to public and the U.S. government should do everything in their power to protect, not erode, those rights.
But that’s not what’s happening. Reports based on documents leaked by Edward Snowden suggest that the U.S. and allied intelligence agencies have targeted news organizations, journalists, and human rights groups for surveillance. When journalists believe they might be targeted by government hackers, pulled into a criminal investigation, or searched and interrogated about their work, their ability to inform the public erodes and their lives could be put at risk.
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“It is becoming increasingly difficult for journalists to do their work in China,” said CPJ Asia Program Coordinator Bob Dietz. “Song Zhibiao’s termination presents a worrisome scenario for any journalist wishing to have a voice to the outside world through international media. Already, the government is stifling local journalists in traditional and online spaces. Now they are attempting to exert control over journalists in international spaces as well.”
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In a single year, the public learned more information about the NSA and its global surveillance dragnet than we learned during the previous 30 years combined. Much of that knowledge can be attributed to whistleblower Edward Snowden and the journalists tirelessly working to inform the public about the NSA’s surveillance programs. But another force, one that has received far less attention, has been hard at work, too: the Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA.