The Israeli occupation’s impunity has intensified attacks on Palestinian journalists, forced media organisations to withdraw their crews and severely undermined independent reporting from Gaza. Despite systematic targeting, communications blackouts and a lack of international accountability, Palestinian journalists continue documenting violations under extraordinary risks.

In newsrooms across Bangladesh, the word "Indigenous" has become too dangerous to put in print. Editors quietly strike it from the copy, wary that a single mention could invite the wrath of the state.

A generation of reporters-built careers on confidential sources, many now write without them.

Independent journalism no longer exists as a functioning practice inside Chechnya. What remains is a profession rebuilt in exile, forced to operate at a distance from the very place it is meant to cover.