Free press

Does Syria’s rise in the Press Freedom Index reflect reality? - analysis

Syria climbed 36 places in the 2026 Reporters Without Borders ranking, but deep constraints on independent journalism remain.

|ByRIZIK ALABI / THE MEDIA LINE
A journalist wearing a press vest holds his camera during a protest in Idlib, Syria on August 11, 2025.
Palestinian journalists report on the war and ongoing humanitarian crisis in the central Gaza Strip, July 26, 2025.

Foreign press urges Israel's High Court to speed up Gaza access ruling

A conditional order, if granted, would mean the court had found the petition serious enough to require the state to formally justify why the requested relief should not be granted.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
Israel's media in the eye of the storm.

Inside Israel's media war: Who shapes the narrative now?

As Israel moves to overhaul its media system, journalists, lawmakers, and critics clash over power, press freedom, and the future of Israeli democracy

|ByRUTH MARKS EGLASH
Ilana Dayan addresses the Emergency Conference of Israeli Journalists in Tel Aviv on December 9, 2025.

Those who seek truth do not silence the press - opinion

In order to repair what has been broken here, we have to know, we have to ask, and we have to demand answers

|ByILANA DAYAN

Free press needs to be free for all sides - analysis

Allowing opinions to be aired even if the government or those in the opposition don’t like what those voices are saying. That is the meaning of a free press.

AUGUST 9, 2023ByHERB KEINON
Likud party chairman MK Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to the media at the Shaare Tzedek hospital in Jerusalem on November 23, 2022.

Prominent Russian journalist and lawyer attacked in Chechnya

The attackers shaved Milashina's head, broke several of her fingers and covered her head with green dye, according to human rights group Memorial.

JULY 4, 2023ByREUTERS
Russian investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta's plate is seen next to an entrance to the office in Moscow October 8, 2021.

Russian system to scan internet for undesired content and dissent

Fines will be imposed for those sharing "LGBT propaganda," or share anti-Russian speech

FEBRUARY 13, 2023ByREUTERS
PUTIN IS not Hitler and treating him like Hitler is a risk, says the writer.

Turkey’s authoritarianism increases targeting journalists, opposition - analysis

Amid the Ukraine war, Ankara has positioned itself as a friend to both sides, working with Russia on trade while also working with Ukraine.

DECEMBER 21, 2022BySETH J. FRANTZMAN
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan attends a ceremony to mark an increase in capacity at a natural gas storage facility in Silivri near Istanbul, Turkey, December 16, 2022.

Musk says will restore recently suspended journalists' Twitter accounts

DECEMBER 17, 2022ByREUTERS
An image of Elon Musk is seen on a smartphone placed on printed Twitter logos in this picture illustration taken April 28, 2022.

Activists launch independent haredi news organization

Naftuli Moster is launching a news organization focused on tackling the news desert in the haredi world.

DECEMBER 1, 2022ByJACKIE HAJDENBERG/JTA
Man reading 'Yated Ne’eman’ in Mea She’arim

Israeli reporter resigns after 40 years: 'Freedom of press at risk'

Matzliach urged journalists to "to protect the freedom of the press and freedom of expression."

NOVEMBER 6, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Channel 12 news anchor and journalist, Rina Matzliach at a conference of the Israeli Television News Company in Jerusalem on March 7, 2021

Russia silences another publication: Novaya Gazeta's magazine

Novaya Gazeta suspended publication in Russia in March after being cautioned for violating new laws censoring coverage of the conflict in Ukraine.

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022ByREUTERS
Russian investigative newspaper Novaya Gazeta's plate is seen next to an entrance to the office in Moscow October 8, 2021.

Russia-Ukraine war: Russia claims 20 journalists murdered in Ukraine

The claim that Russian journalists are being killed in Ukraine echoes similar narratives pushed by the Kremlin back in April.

MAY 29, 2022ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Journalists work near damaged buildings hit in a military strike, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Shevchenkivskyi district in Kyiv, Ukraine, March 23, 2022.

Hong Kong pro-democracy Stand News shuts down after police raid, arrests

Stand News, set up in 2014 as a non-profit organization, was the most prominent remaining pro-democracy publication in Hong Kong.

DECEMBER 29, 2021ByREUTERS
Police stand guard outside the Stand News office building, after six people were arrested "for conspiracy to publish seditious publication" according to Hong Kong's Police National Security Department, in Hong Kong, China, December 29, 2021.