Press Freedom

“If journalists want to revive independent journalism, they cannot rely on people in power. They have to rely on the public,” writes Rasmus Nielsen.

“Our priority was to reveal what the government was hiding,” says Zyma Islam, who opens up about her team's work in the weeks that changed her country.

“The protests were so resilient because people recorded atrocities on social media in real time,” says political science and media expert Mubashar Hasan.

Cheng was laid off after her election to lead the Hong Kong Journalists Association. In this interview she speaks about press freedom in the territory.