{"id":1379,"date":"2021-12-22T11:34:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T12:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/?p=1379"},"modified":"2021-12-22T11:34:31","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T12:34:31","slug":"40-of-afghan-media-outlets-closed-since-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/2021\/12\/22\/40-of-afghan-media-outlets-closed-since-august\/","title":{"rendered":"40% of Afghan Media Outlets Closed Since August"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Since the fall of the former Afghan government on the 15th of August, media in Afghanistan has been facing new challenges that has led to the closing of many outlets, and has caused many women reporters to lose their jobs, the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Afghan Independent Journalists Association (AIJA) said on Wednesday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

A survey conducted by RSF and AIJA shows that since August, 40 percent of media outlets in Afghanistan have ceased operating, and 80 percent of women journalists and media workers have become unemployed due to restrictions.<\/p>\n

\u201cA total of 231 media outlets have had to close and more than 6.400 journalists have lost their jobs since 15 August. Women journalists have been hit the hardest, with four out of five no longer working,\u201d the survey says.<\/p>\n

According to the RSF and AIJA, of the 543 media outlets operating by the start of summer 2021, only 312 were still operating by the end of November. \u201cMore than four out of every ten media outlets have disappeared and 60% of journalists and media employees are no longer able to work. Women have suffered much more than men: 84% of them have lost their jobs,\u201d the survey report reads.<\/p>\n

According to these two organizations supporting media, before the fall of the republic, in most of the provinces of Afghanistan at least ten private media were operating, but now in some regions there are no media outlets at all. \u201cThere used to be 10 media outlets in the mountainous northern province of Parwan but now just three are functioning. In the western city of Herat (the country\u2019s third largest) and the surrounding province, only 18 of the 51 media outlets are still operating \u2013 a 65% fall. The central Kabul region, which had more media that anywhere else, has not been spared the carnage. It has lost more than one of every two media outlets (51%). Of the 148 tallied prior to 15 August, only 72 are still operating,\u201d the survey results show.<\/p>\n

RSF and AIJA have said that new restrictions imposed on media outlets, especially female reporters, and the economic and financial challenges are the two main reasons behind the closing of media outlets and female reporters becoming unemployed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe dangerous ‘Journalism Rules’\u00a0open the way to censorship and persecution, and deprive journalists of their independence, forcing them to tell information and culture ministry officials what they would like to cover, get their permission to go ahead and finally inform them about the results of their reporting in order to be able to publish,\u201d the survey says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is an urgent need to rein in the spiral leading inevitably to the disappearance of Afghan media and to ensure that respect for press freedom is a priority,\u201d said Reza Moini, the head of RSF\u2019s Iran-Afghanistan desk.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Since the fall of the former Afghan government on the 15th of August, media in Afghanistan has been facing new challenges that has led to the closing of many outlets, and has caused many women reporters to lose their jobs, the Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Afghan Independent Journalists Association (AIJA) said on Wednesday. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-afg_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1381,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions\/1381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shahed.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}