70% of environmental reporters have faced threats and intimidation, UNESCO finds

It is now time to for Deepti Gillron to join us in studio again with the look at how this day is being viewed in the newspapers around the world. Yeah, there’s a lot of diverse articles today on on this topic. Sharon, This is the Washington Post editorial today focusing on the repression of the media in Hong Kong. The paper looking at the draconian national security laws there which ensure that journalists who dare speak out against authorities are firmly punished. Fake news laws elsewhere in the world, which in reality aim to just crack down on critical and independent reporting, are still uphelding, like Russia, Egypt, China and Myanmar. The French paper Lumon, for its part, is looking at the threat faced by environmental journalists. According to a report by UNESCO that surveyed 905 journalists working in almost 130 countries. They found 70% of journalists regularly face threats, attacks and intimidation for their reporting. Journalists who report on particular topics like illegal activities like environmental pollution or poaching, particular dangers in their reporting. Our own website runs 24 reports on UNESCO awarding its World Press Freedom Prize today to all Palestinian journalists, paying tribute to the solidarity and recognition of Palestinian journalists who are facing difficult and dangerous circumstances and deep to the Swiss paper Luton. It’s dedicated several pages to Fresh PRE freedom Freedom in its edition today it has indeed chair and this is the first. This is the first double page inside the edition today focusing on multiple things. The the officials that in of the city of Geneva today will announce 2 winners of the International Prize for Press Cartoonists, which will be handed down to Indian political cartoonist Rachita Taneja and the Hong Kong cartoonist Zunzi. Meanwhile, other cartoonist Matt Worker from Politico and Antelnay from Washington Post have been invited by the Swiss paper to talk about that profession and talk about cartooning, so to speak, in and in such a politically charged US environment and electoral year. Of course, let’s show you some of the cartoons that they’ve also featured. This one is from the Algerian cartoonist Dilemm, his sharp rebuke of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, Gaza that is already in ruins, as you can see there. This one here is of Joe Biden here reading the paper Gaza death toll climbs. If only something could be done while he himself has access to a button there symbolically that could stop or halt the exploitation of US weapons. And finally, this one is from Zunzi, the one of the laureates of today’s political cartooning prize, the Hong Kong cartoonist. This is a really poignant rebuke as well a condemnation of Hong Kong national security laws there, this actually being the Chinese letter for for a law that is being dismantled. And then as you see, they’re eventually transformed into weapon. So you really get a very poignant sense of how he feels about those national security laws there in Hong Kong. Deepti, for now, thank you so much. That’s Deepti Galeron joining us for look at the papers on this World Press Freedom Day.