Archive for October, 2014

October 17, 2014 · Posted in: General, Investigative Reports

#HackAgainstEbola

This article was first published on indiegogo.com. Help African journalists to develop prototypes against the epidemic EPIDEMICS create panic, irrational information, dangerous rumours and uncertified facts, which can all generate chaos. Journalists...

Reporters Without Borders condemns new cases of censorship and self-censorship AS THE Occupy Central movement continues its pro-democracy demonstrations, local and foreign media whose coverage angers the government are suffering consequences. Hong Kong...

Reporters Sans Frontieres: Why Indonesia should release two detained French journalists HELD since early August, Valentine Bourrat and Thomas Dandois are to go on trial next week After holding French journalists Valentine Bourrat and Thomas...

October 16, 2014 · Posted in: General

MULTIMEDIA: ‘Family dinner’

AS WE CELEBRATE World Food Day, we present our new Exposure page where we will be sharing our photos and videos. Click HERE to be redirected to the site. FAMILY DINNER by PCIJ on...

October 16, 2014 · Posted in: General

Hungry in the age of plenty

By Julius D. Mariveles and Cong B. Corrales GABRIEL Negre roasts cassava on an open fire in one of the haciendas or sugarcane plantations in Negros Occidental. This is not an outdoor barbecue party. This is survival cooking. Gabriel earns only a...

A WORRYING fact against this global backdrop of hunger is food waste. The FAO estimates that 925 million of the seven billion people on the planet are starving yet 1.3 billion tons of food – or enough to feed three billion people – are wasted...

Cambodian journalist Taing Try was shot dead yesterday while investigating illegal logging in the southern province of Kratie with five other journalists. Three suspects have been arrested. A reporter for several local newspapers, Taing Try was shot...