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Russia bans British journalists from entering the country
NEARLY 30 journalists and members of the British media have been banned by Russia from entering the country. Russia’s foreign ministry said this was in response to western
sanctions and the “spreading of false information about Russia”, as well as “anti-Russian actions of the British government”. The ban affects some of the best-known broadcast journalists, national newspaper editors and the director general of the BBC. The foreign ministry said the British journalists on the list “are
involved in the deliberate dissemination of false and one-sided information about Russia and events in Ukraine and Donbas”. Michelle Stanistreet, NUJ general secretary, said: “This is a
deliberate move to stifle press freedom and curtail accurate reporting about events in Russia. This tit-for-tat targeting of senior media figures and journalists is clearly intended to send a chilling message at the same time as curtailing reporting by the high-profile, experienced journalists singled out in this list.” Those on the list are: at the Daily Telegraph, editor-in-chief Chris
Evans, columnist Con Coughlin and journalists James Rothwell and Joseph Barnes; at the BBC, Richard Sharp, chair of the board of governors, Timothy Davie, director general, Clive Myrie, correspondent and news presenter, presenter Nick Robinson and correspondents Orla Guerin, Paul Adams and Nick Beake; Channel 4 journalists and presenters Alexander Thomson and Catherine
Newman; at Sky News, chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay and journalist and presenter Sophy Ridge; at The Times, John Witherow, editor-in-chief, and Larisa Brown, military news editor; at the Guardian, editor-in-chief Katharine Viner and correspondents Shaun Walker, Luke Harding, Peter Beaumont and Emma Graham-Harrison; ITV correspondent Dan Rivers; Edward Verity, editor-in-chief, Daily Mail; Christian Broughton, editor-in- chief, The Independent; Mark Galeotti, political scientist; Gideon Rachman, Financial Times correspondent; Dominic Lawson, Sunday Times and Daily Mail columnist; and Lawrence Freedman, Sunday Times columnist.
On the frontline in Ukraine, Pages 12-14 Russian media union forced to close
RUSSIA is forcing the closure of the Journalists’ and Media Workers’ Union. Following a lawsuit filed by
Moscow’s prosecutor to dissolve the Journalists’ and Media Workers’ Union
(JMWU), the union was ordered to provide large amounts of data spanning meeting minutes, accounts, and information related to publications. The deadline imposed of one working day
was flagged with Moscow’s deputy prosecutor Sergei Savenkov, accompanied by a request for “reasonable time” to provide requested files.
The union’s co-chair Sofia
Rusova and union representatives were questioned by prosecutors about the union’s activities, and in July the JMWU received confirmation of a ruling to dissolve the union.
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BBC APOLOGISES TO WHISTLEBLOWER The BBC has apologised and will pay a ‘significant sum’ to a former Panorama journalist who alerted it to suspicions over the way Martin Bashir secured his 1995 interview with Princess Diana. Mark Killick had been treated as a troublemaker and managers claimed he leaked information because he was jealous as he had not been on the interview team.
SUBSCRIBERS BOOST ECONOMIST’S PROFITS The Economist has seen profits rise because of increased subscriptions. In its annual report, The Economist Newspaper Ltd said its adjusted operating profit was up 11 per cent to £46.4 million, its best figure since £47 million in 2016. Subscribers in March totalled 1.18 million, compared with 1.12 million in March 2021 and 1.08 million in 2020.
FORBES DECIDES AGAINST MERGER Business news publisher Forbes has halted a plan to go public through a merger with a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC). It cited the poor SPAC market, indicating that the deal may not have done credit to Forbes’ underlying value. It may now explore bids from private buyers.
IFJ backs Ukrainian media workers
THE INTERNATIONAL Federation of Journalists (IFJ) congress gave its full support to journalists in Ukraine and welcomed Serhiy Shturkhetskyy from the Independent Media Trade Union of Ukraine (IMTUU) as a delegate. He told the 250-strong congress, which was held in Muscat, Oman,: “Thank you, IFJ, for all the help that you have given to my union and to my country. The conditions suffered by my members are intolerable and knowing we are part of an international family is one of the things that keeps us going.” The IFJ is running a fund to support Ukrainian journalists and
foreign media workers who are covering the war. Assistance is being co-ordinated by solidarity centres, which were set up by the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine supported by other journalists’ organisations including the IMTUU and the NUJ.
Dom Phillips laid to rest in Brazil
Dom Phillips, the British reporter and
NUJ member murdered in the Amazon, has been laid to rest in a cemetery in Niterói near Rio de Janeiro. The 57-year-old freelance, who had
written for the Guardian, the Washington Post and The New York Times, was researching a book with Bruno Pereira, former head of isolated tribes at federal indigenous affairs
agency Funai, when they disappeared in the remote Javari valley in June. Both men were shot. Dom’s memorial was held after Bruno’s funeral, which was attended by indigenous peoples.
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