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Digital Planet: Internet and journalist reporting freedom curtailed

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Internet and journalist reporting freedom curtailed

07/04/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - Digital Planet, Internet and journalist reporting freedom curtailed

A new online map is recording where journalists are restricted in reporting on COVID-19.

Internet and journalist freedoms restricted.  Also remote learning for school children in Africa and culture in quarantine, making sacred music for Easter.

Bolsonaro’s tweets deleted
Our South America reporter Angelica Mari tells us about the daily pot banging protests against the Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, but it’s now not only the people trying to silence him.  Social Media platforms have removed some of his posts as they have been, according to them, spreading misinformation about the coronavirus.

Internet  and journalistic freedoms restricted
The Index on Censorship, the global freedom of expression organisation has been charting restrictions on the internet and on journalists, via an interactive map online. Rachael Jolley is editor-in-chief at Index and joins us on the programme.

Ubongo – remote learning the African way
As many schools around the world close their doors, more and more learning is shifting from the classroom to the home.  17 million households in twelve countries across sub-Saharan Africa are now benefitting from Ubongo – the TV, radio, online and mobile learning platform. Iman Lipumba of Ubongo explains how it works. 

Culture in Quarantine; sacred music at Easter
Twenty musicians in the famous Tenebrae vocal ensemble have recorded an Easter recital for television, despite socially isolating all over the world. Quite a challenge for the singers, their conductor Nigel Short and the production company Livewire Pictures. Jan Younghusband BBC Music Head of Music TV Commissioning explains how it all happened.





(Image: Index on Censorship. Credit: IndexOnCensorship.org/Google Maps )                                         

The programme is presented by Gareth Mitchell with expert comment from Ghislaine Boddington.

Producer: Ania Lichtarowicz

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