Journalist

Brent Renaud, an award-winning US video journalist who had been covering Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, was shot dead near Kyiv on Sunday, according to medics and witnesses.

Habibur Rahman, a senior reporter of daily Shomoyer Alo, has died after a motorcycle accident in the capital's Hatirjheel area early Wednesday.

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) on Friday said that a total of 45 journalists were killed worldwide in 2021, one of the lowest death tolls it has recorded for any year.

Ekushey Padak winning senior journalist Reaz Uddin Ahmed, editor of The Financial Herald, has passed away at around 1:30 pm on Saturday.

The number of journalists jailed around the world hit a new record in 2021, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Thursday, with China and Myanmar having put a quarter of the 293 media workers behind bars.

Veteran journalist, publisher, and Daily Janakantha editor Atikullah Khan Masud passed away at the age of 71 at the Evercare Hospital in the capital early Monday.

AZM Anas, Economic Editor at The Financial Express, passed away at the age of 45 in the capital. He breathed his last at around at 8:00 am on Tuesday morning.