Croatian police on Tuesday pressed charges against two former rebel Serb policemen for killing two Russian journalists during the country’s 1990s war, that claimed lives of more than 20 reporters. Viktor Nogin and Gennadiy Kurinnoy, working for the [...]
AFP’s fact-check service debunks misinformation spread online. Here are some of our recent fact-checks: 1. Myanmar ‘tank woman’? An image purportedly showing a woman holding a sword and confronting an armoured vehicle in Myanmar was [...]
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The Peter Mackler Award honors reporters and editors who have demonstrated a commitment to fairness, accuracy and speaking truth to power, and a matching commitment to asserting the right to publish or air that story in countries where independent media is under threat.