{"id":278690,"date":"2019-06-12T01:46:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T05:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiYGh0dHA6Ly93d3cudGFkaWFzLmNvbS8wNi8xMi8yMDE5L2V0aGlvcGlhLXNlZWtzLW5ldy1pbWFnZS1hZnRlci15ZWFycy1vZi1tZWRpYS1yZXByZXNzaW9uLXZpZGVvL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:31:35","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:31:35","slug":"tadias-shared-a-reuters-video-on-ethiopias-freer-media-climate-and-new-information-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278690","title":{"rendered":"Tadias shared a Reuters video on Ethiopia\u2019s freer media climate and new information challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 12 June 2019 Tadias Magazine highlighted a Reuters video on Ethiopia\u2019s changing media scene after the country jumped about forty places in the Reporters Without Borders press-freedom index, with more than 250 previously banned websites and blogs running and, for the first time in fifteen years, no journalists held for their work according to that reporting.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-597608\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/addis-newspapers.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tadias shared a Reuters video on Ethiopia\u2019s freer media climate and new information challenges\" \/>\n<p>Tadias said the video also pointed to new challenges for journalists and for the public\u2019s right to timely, factual, and balanced news as media space opened after years of repression.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as press-freedom archive, the Tadias post dates how diaspora media framed Ethiopia\u2019s early reform-era media opening in June 2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tadias.com\/06\/12\/2019\/ethiopia-seeks-new-image-after-years-of-media-repression-video\/\">Tadias Magazine<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia Seeks New Image After Years of Media Repression (Video)&nbsp;&nbsp;Tadias MagazineEthiopia jumped 40 places in last year&#8217;s press freedom index by Reporters Without Borders, which noted that over 250 previously banned websites and blogs &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":597608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/addis-newspapers.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1av0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278690"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755137,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278690\/revisions\/755137"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/597608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}