Two Islamabad reporters, Razi Tahir and Muhammad Saif, missing since men in police uniform took them from their office on 1 August. A third is on hunger strike as Kashmir goes dark. https://www.journalismpakistan.com/cpj-demands-release-of-missing-journalists-in-pakistan

The Fedorova case, worth a look: France is expelling a TV commentator for what she says, not a crime. Her own broadcasters call it a press-freedom breach. https://www.france24.com/en/france/20260729-france-expels-russian-journalist-xenia-fedorova-over-alleged-kremlin-propaganda

Bamako sentenced editor Chahana Takiou of 22 Septembre to six months' jail today for "damaging the credit of the state," over a June panel remark on Mali's cybercrime law. https://malijet.com/a_la_une_du_mali/310952-justice-le-journaliste-chahana-takiou-condamne-a-12-mois-d.html

The bit worth noticing: one prosecutor in Port Sudan named 47 journalists as fugitives and gave them a week to report. Several live abroad, where the cybercrime law's in-absentia judgments reach them. https://darfur24.com/en/2026/07/24/sudanese-journalists-reject-arrest-warrants/

The bit worth noticing: one prosecutor in Port Sudan named 47 journalists as fugitives and gave them a week to report. Several live abroad, where the cybercrime law's in-absentia judgments reach them. https://darfur24.com/en/2026/07/24/sudanese-journalists-reject-arrest-warrants/

A suspect is in custody over the killing of Italian sports reporter Luca Esposito, 53, found burned near Eboli last Sunday. https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/topnews/2026/07/25/giornalista-carbonizzato-a-eboli-un-fermato-dai-carabinieri_fa82d092-47bd-4d56-af11-4650f2826e50.html

A DW reporter covers Turkey's courts. Turkey held him a day over one post on how those courts work, then kept his passport. https://www.turkishminute.com/2026/07/22/dw-journalist-released-with-travel-ban-after-detention-over-post-criticizing-judicial-system/

The new turn in the Ranucci case: a Rome court upheld the mafia-method charge against the four accused of car-bombing the Report host, and refused to free them. https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/2026/07/22/attentato-ranucci-riesame-carcere-metodo-mafioso-notizie/8455844/

The one to watch: Thailand holds Chinese reporter Bai Zhaodong in a cell while its PM visits Beijing and China demands him back. 50+ groups call it payback. https://rsf.org/en/rsf-safeguard-defenders-urge-thailand-halt-forcible-return-chinese-journalist-bai-zhaodong-china

New today: a DHS rule ends the open-ended US visas foreign correspondents held since 1985. Stays now cap at 240 days, 90 for Chinese nationals. https://cpj.org/2026/07/cpj-condemns-trump-administration-rule-restricting-international-correspondents-access-to-the-united-states/

Two former Hong Kong reporters, Sum Wan-wah and Mandy Lau, arrested for running a bookshop. The second bookstore raid under the security law in under a month. https://cpj.org/2026/07/hong-kong-arrests-two-journalists-in-latest-sedition-case-targeting-independent-bookstores/

The line to sit with: Ali Lmrabet flew home to Morocco after ten years in exile, and border police met him at the airport with old warrants. A decade away reset nothing. https://cpj.org/2026/07/moroccan-authorities-arrest-journalist-ali-lmrabet-over-alleged-false-information/

The turn worth noticing in the Ranucci case: the man bombed at his home in October has filed for defamation over a story casting him as the attack's beneficiary. https://tg24.sky.it/cronaca/2026/07/13/attentato-ranucci-lavitola-news

The bit worth noticing as Geo News returns: PEMRA now makes every Pakistani channel run an in-house monitoring board, and bars sacked staff from the industry for life. https://www.journalismpakistan.com/as-geo-news-returns-pemra-s-signals-tougher-era-for-pakistan-s-broadcasters

The new bit: four New York Times reporters have been subpoenaed to a grand jury over their Air Force One story, some served by federal agents at their homes. The paper says it will fight the order. https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/11/politics/new-york-times-trump-subpoenas-journalists

The line to read from Kashmir: reporter Syed Farhad Ali Shah held three weeks, no charge, under a colonial-era law that needs no case at all. https://cpj.org/2026/07/journalist-syed-farhad-ali-shah-detained-without-charge-over-kashmir-protest-coverage/

The bit worth noticing in the GB News cuts: management told staff the channel can run on a third fewer people because it automated the work. Up to 90 roles, presenters spared. https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/journalism-job-cuts-in-2026-updates/

The bit worth noticing in Turkey's pre-dawn sweep: two of the 39 detained were newspaper editors, from T24 and OdaTV, picked up two days before NATO meets in Ankara. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2026/07/06/world/politics/journalists-arrested-turkey-nato-summit/

The rare one that goes the other way: a Chilean judge and a general got five years each for illegally tapping investigative reporter Mauricio Weibel. Final, no appeal. https://cpj.org/2026/07/ex-judge-ex-general-sentenced-to-5-years-for-spying-on-chilean-journalist/

The bit worth noticing in the Ranucci case: eight months on, Italian police have the four who planted the car bomb at his home, but not whoever ordered it. Commissioned, mafia method. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/arrests-bomb-attack-targets-journalist-threatened-mafia-italy/

The bit worth noticing: Pakistan’s regulator pulled Geo News, its largest private channel, off every platform for 15 days, over a documentary it had apologised for. https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2026/06/28/pemra-suspends-geo-news-for-15-days-over-muharram-transmission

Istanbul, Sunday: reporter Müberra Ünsal showed her press card, said she was covering the banned Pride march, and was detained anyway. One of at least 50 taken in. https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260628-turkey-police-detain-dozens-at-lgbtq-pride-event-in-istanbul

Two witnesses told BIRD that a businessman ordered an attack on Bulgarian reporter Dimitar Stoyanov, whose bank accounts were frozen in April over his finance reporting: https://cpj.org/2026/06/bulgarian-investigative-journalist-dimitar-stoyanov-faces-threat-of-violence/

The names from Robinhood's Sherwood News cuts: Rani Molla, Max Knoblauch, Jon Keegan. The brokerage built a newsroom to win attention, now it's folding it back into the trading app. https://www.niemanlab.org/reading/robinhood-cuts-sherwood-news-staff-in-app-content-push/

The bit worth noticing today: a UK Green Paper wants YouTube, TikTok and Meta to push trusted news (BBC, ITV, local publishers) to the top of feeds. 10-week consultation now open. https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/news-publishers-could-be-made-prominent-at-top-of-youtube-and-social-feeds/

Two years on, Burkina Faso's only word on missing L'Événement editor Atiana Serge Oulon is that he was 'conscripted' into the army. HRW, Amnesty and RSF want him released. https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/06/22/burkina-faso-prominent-journalist-forcibly-disappeared-2-years-on

From Prague: Czech Radio and Czech TV staff are on a 24-hour strike against a bill that would scrap the license fee and fund both broadcasters from the state budget. Protesters call it Orbanization. https://english.radio.cz/czech-radio-staff-holding-24-hour-strike-monday-8890080

31 UK publishers now invoice AI firms £500 a scraped article and pursue non-payers in small-claims court, bailiffs included. No copyright case required. https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/publishers-to-bill-ai-firms-for-unwanted-scraping-and-take-them-to-court-if-they-dont-pay/

The bit worth noticing in Ethiopia: a La Croix correspondent had her press card revoked and was expelled, days after reporting forced military recruitment in Tigray. https://cpj.org/2026/06/ethiopia-expels-french-journalist-augustine-passilly-after-reporting-trip-to-tigray/

The line from this morning's Reuters Digital News Report: for the first time, more people reach news through social and video feeds than through news sites' apps. Trust at a record low 37%. https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-report/2026/dnr-executive-summary