Fields aflame and a ruined school: the Ian Parry photojournalism grant 2024 – in pictures
A look at the work of the recipients of this year’s Ian Parry photojournalism grant
Rights and freedom
A ninth woman has died reporting on the Ukraine conflict. Russia’s war on journalists must end
Kiran Nazish
Warnings are not enough. After Victoria Roshchyna’s death, we need zero tolerance of the detention and brutal treatment of female reporters
‘She doubled down on danger’: Lucy Lawless on making a movie about a real-life warrior princess
Margaret Moth, who was shot in the face while covering the Bosnian war, was wild, heroic and sexually adventurous – the perfect subject, Lawless says, for her directorial debut
October 2024
‘No one is coming to save them’: blackouts hide horrors of siege of north Gaza
Keir Starmer says media firms should have control of output used in AI
Three journalists killed by Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon
At least 17 people killed in Israeli strike on school turned shelter in Nuseirat
Iranian general charged in plot to murder US-based dissident journalist
Former Las Vegas official who killed journalist must serve at least 28 years
Ukrainian reporter died in Russian detention, Kyiv says
Australian arts in focus
Pianist sues Melbourne Symphony Orchestra for cancelling his concert allegedly over Gaza stance
September 2024
Hong Kong: Stand News journalists given jail terms for ‘sedition’
Rights and freedom
‘This is a big chance for all of us’: Germany’s freedom hotel where exiled journalists take refuge
Hong Kong journalists harassed in ‘systemic and organised attack’
Rights and freedom
‘They are putting their lives on the line every day to report’: the woman standing up for female journalists against rising repression
‘After Rwanda, I felt I needed philosophical more than psychological help’: journalist Lindsey Hilsum on war and the consolation of poetry
Mani once sang of freedom in Afghanistan. Now, silenced, she’s desperate to escape. Will Australia help?
Shadi Khan Saif
August 2024
Two Stand News journalists in Hong Kong found guilty of sedition
Chris Patten condemns ‘dark day for press freedom’ as Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam convicted over 11 articles
‘Being on camera is no longer sensible’: persecuted Venezuelan journalists turn to AI
Journalists are using artificial intelligence avatars to combat Maduro’s media crackdown since disputed election
British Reuters staff member killed in strike on hotel in eastern Ukraine – video
Ryan Evans, who was working as a safety adviser for the agency, was killed after a missile struck the Hotel Sapphire
