PARIS, France, Aug. 20 [Category: Media] -- Reporters Without Borders issued the following news: * * * "No one wants to suffer the same fate as KazTAG": as legislative elections approach, Kazakhstan bans leaders of news agency from practising journalism for five years * Ahead of Kazakhstan's parliamentary elections this Sunday, 23 August, the conviction of Amir Kasenov, founder and editor-in-chief of the independent news agency KazTAG, and its director Aset Matayev, illustrates the mounting pressure on journalists in Kazakhstan. Reporters W more PR

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, Aug. 20 -- The University of Pennsylvania posted the following news: * * * A summer of research and teaching with Scribe Video Center * At the Jubilee School in West Philadelphia, undergraduate Sarah Attia sat with a few students-entering grades four to six this fall-and pulled up the website of Temple University's Charles L. Blockson Afro-American Collection. "I want you to scroll through and find one source from these 19 that you want to take a closer look at," she said. Attia and Tiffany R. Smith, humanities  more PR

ATLANTA, Georgia, Aug. 20 [Category: BizMedia] -- CNN posted the following news: * * * CNN's Krishna Andavolu Named Explainers Correspondent * August 20th, 2026 NEW YORK, NY-(August 20, 2026)-CNN has named Emmy award-winning journalist Krishna Andavolu Explainers Correspondent, the network announced today. In this expanded role, Andavolu will continue to host CNN Explains, a streaming series for CNN subscribers, that helps audiences understand the forces shaping their lives. Since joining CNN in 2025, Andavolu has served as Senior Produce more PR

JEFFERSON, Louisiana, Aug. 20 [Category: BizHospital] -- Ochsner Health System issued the following news release: * * * Ochsner Health partners with Joy 101 to strengthen workforce well-being and culture * Ochsner Health, the leading nonprofit health system in Louisiana, Mississippi and across the Gulf South, has announced a first-of-its-kind partnership with Joy 101, the well-being platform founded and curated by Emmy Award-winning journalist and bestselling author Hoda Kotb. As the first employer in the nation and the first health system  more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 -- The Senate Budget Committee released the following testimony by Paragon Health Institute President Brian C. Blase from an Aug. 4, 2026, hearing entitled "Medicaid: The Reality": * * * Chairman Johnson, Ranking Member Merkley, and Members of the Committee: Before I begin my testimony, I want to express my deepest condolences on the passing of Chairman Lindsey Graham. Chairman Graham devoted decades of his life to public service and to strengthening our nation. My thoughts and prayers are with his family, his friends, hi more PR

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21 -- Pulitzer Center, an organization that says it combines journalism and engagement, posted the following news: * * * Illinois Students Examine Poverty Through Inter-School Exchange Author: Rivanna Jihan, Guest Contributor Rivanna Jihan is a high school social studies teacher in Chicago. Jihan created the lesson plan "Bold Promises to End Poverty," as a part of the spring 2025 Pulitzer Center Teacher Fellowship program, "Global Issues, Local Contexts: News for Civic Knowledge and Engagement." Her lesson reached 14 stud more PR

PARIS, France, Aug. 20 [Category: Media] -- Reporters Without Borders issued the following news: * * * Serbia: RSF raises alarm about growing number of exiled journalists, unparalleled in EU-Balkans zone * Serbia is the only country in the European Union (EU) - Balkans zone where journalists have had to leave for reasons connected to their work. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the EU to stop turning a blind eye on media freedom in the EU candidate country. They fled and yet they continue to face threats. Journalist Marko Vidojkovi more PR

CHICAGO, Illinois, Aug. 19 [Category: Libraries] -- The American Library Association posted the following news release: * * * The Pulitzer Prizes, in partnership with the American Library Association, present new traveling exhibition, Pulitzer on the Road: Prize-Winning Works That Inform, Empower & Inspire, to be displayed at 20 public libraries nationwide * Exhibition Celebrates Pulitzer Prize-Winning Works in All Categories Through Displays, Interactive Stations and Live Events Exhibition Debuts in October 2026 in Chicago and Dallas CH more PR

BRUSSELS, Belgium, Aug. 20 -- The European Federation of Journalists posted the following news: * * * The silence Russia wanted: how journalist Anastasiia Hlukhovska vanished into incommunicado detention * By Valeriia Muskharina and Viktoria Malyovana, from the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU). No contact. No charges. No legal status. This is what incommunicado detention looks like: enforced isolation from the world and one of the most profound forms of human suffering. For three years now, journalist Anastasiia Hlukhovska  more PR

PARIS, France, Aug. 20 [Category: Media] -- Reporters Without Borders issued the following news: * * * West Bank: Israeli army escalates violence against Palestinian journalists * Reporters Without Borders (RSF) highlights recent attacks and obstructions committed by the Israeli army against Palestinian journalists reporting from the occupied West Bank. The organisation condemns this targeted violence, which aims to prevent media professionals from doing their jobs. "RSF condemns the Israeli army's attacks on journalists and calls on Israe more PR