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Journalist death toll rises to 68 in 2009, says CPJ
Number of journalists killed for their work up 60 per cent from 2008, says Committee to Protect Journalists
Posted by Laura Oliver on 17/12/09CNN award-winning journalist John Allan Namu receives death threats
Investigative Kenyan radio journalist and colleague under threat for tax scam exposé
Posted by Dennis Itumbi on 09/12/09Q&A: Media Lens - 'Our book will likely be more or less ignored, as other similar books have been'
Online media critics on why they target liberal media in online forum and email bulletins
Posted by Judith Townend on 02/12/09#WANIndia2009: WAN-IFRA calls on Pakistan to secure press freedom for journalists
Demands made as Golden Pen of Freedom award is given to Pakistani editor Najam Sethi
Posted by Laura Oliver on 01/12/09#WANIndia2009: Eighty-eight journalists killed since January 2009, says new press freedom report
WAN-IFRA's press freedom report says hundreds of journalists arrested so far this year
Posted by Judith Townend on 01/12/09Wilf Mbanga: 'Zimbabwean government realised that burning the news attracts world headlines'
The Zimbabwean's 'self-expelled' editor would rather be reporting from the ground, but is in no rush to return to the troubled country
Posted by Chris Kay on 26/11/09Newspaper editors should withdraw from PCC for press freedom reform, says leading QC
PCC cannot push for libel reform and act as regulator, says Geoffrey Robertson QC
Posted by Laura Oliver on 11/11/09Revisiting Lebanon: 'Journalists are seen as just another casualty category'
Anthony Mills, press freedom manager, International Press Institute
Posted by Anthony Mills on 04/11/09Global Voices to track suppression of free speech online with new site
Threatened Voices will visualise and monitor threats to bloggers and online writers
Posted by Laura Oliver on 03/11/09Unmasked blogger NightJack named judge for Orwell Prize 2010
Annual political prize for blogs, journalism and books launches at the Frontline Club
Posted by Judith Townend on 29/10/09European countries slip in the press freedom rankings
UK up three places, but France, Slovakia and Italy fall down RSF's annual list
Posted by Judith Townend on 22/10/09'Anna Politkovskaya: One death from violence is one death too many'
Robin Morgan, chairman, CIoJ Professional Practices Board
Posted by Robin Morgan on 09/10/09Chinese media clamouring for attention, but the West is not interested
Publications will need shift in ideology, not just language, to grab the world's attention
Posted by David Bartram on 30/09/09La Repubblica calls on global community to fight Berlusconi's libel action
Petition has attracted more than 420,000 signatures from around the world to date
Posted by Judith Townend on 25/09/09Free human rights guide launched to help improve reporting
Media Trust advice available to journalists in print or online
Posted by Judith Townend on 24/09/09Independent Zimbabwean radio station SWRA: 'We want to broadcast a little hope'
Shortwave radio and SMS provide best way to get news into Zimbabwe, says exiled station's founder
Posted by Laura Oliver on 16/09/09ITN's Ronke Phillips among international journalists to receive Ochberg fellowships
The Dart Center fellowships aid journalists' coverage of violent and traumatic events
Posted by Judith Townend on 04/09/09'I'm an ethicist get me out of here!': Conference will question global media obsession with celebrity
Annual Institute of Communication Ethics event will explore major ethical issues facing journalists
Posted by Judith Townend on 28/08/09Groucho Club in libel action to prevent defendant's claims in 'exposé' of famous media haunt
Tyrone D Murphy intends to represent himself in the High Court, after claimants abandoned original injunction application
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#wef12 - WAN-IFRA publishes 'report on violence against Mexico's press'
WAN-IFRA has this week published a report called “a death threat to freedom”, which looks at “violence against Mexico’s press”. The report was published on Tuesday (4 September), a day after the organisation’s World Editors Forum presented the Golden Pen of Freedom to Mexican journalist Anabel Hernandez. The report calls on the government to “take [...]
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 5 September 2012Hugh Grant: Leveson inquiry has shone 'disinfectant sunlight' into 'infected corners'
Hugh Grant, Tom Watson MP and president of the National Union of Journalists Donnacha Delong speak at a rally calling for media reform
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 18 May 2012Voice of America: China's Foreign Ministry questioned on Al Jazeera journalist visa issue
Voice of America has published what it says is a transcript of questions put to the spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, in relation to Al Jazeera English's report that its China correspondent Melissa Chan had her visa renewal application 'refused'
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 9 May 2012Index: Hungary faces squeeze on freedoms
Sándor Orbán, the director of the South East European Network for Professionalisation of Media, reports for Index on Censorship on the raft of new laws passed by the ruling Fidesz party and the threat to civil liberties and media freedom
Posted by Joel Gunter on 6 January 2012Pakistan tops another 2011 journalist death toll
The International Federation of Journalists describes 2011 as "another bloody year for media"
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 3 January 2012Journalists shot dead in Somalia and Russia
The founder of independent Russian newspaper Chernovik has been killed, as has a journalist working for a TV station in Somali
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 19 December 2011Reporters Without Borders secretary-general to step down in new year
Press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders announced this week that its secretary-general Jean-François Julliard will step down on 31 January
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 14 December 2011Two-year anniversary of massacre of 30 journalists in Philippines
Today is also the inaugural International Day to End Impunity
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 23 November 2011'Silencing the messenger is all too often the name of the game': Mark Austin speaks at St Bride's
The address given by ITV News at Ten presenter Mark Austin at St Bride's Church yesterday (Wednesday), for the service to commemorate journalists who have died while covering conflicts across the world.
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 10 November 2011Index: Take action to end impunity
This coming 23 November will be the second anniversary of the 2009 Maguindanao Massacre in the Phillippines, in which 34 journalists were murdered during election related violence in the country. Last year, on the first anniversary, there was a “global day of action” to commemorate the killings. This year, the second anniversary will also be [...]
Posted by Joel Gunter on 9 November 2011#wef11: 'News industry is in the vortex of a fast changing world'
WAN-IFRA's new president calls for self regulation of the press to maintained in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 13 October 2011BBC news chief calls for pressure on Iran after threats to journalists' families
BBC issues public statement after journalists' families arrested and harassed in Iran
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 5 October 2011Guardian: How Luke Harding became the reporter Russia hated
The Guardian’s former Moscow correspondent Luke Harding has a lively piece up on his time as the city’s harassed-western-journalist-in-chief. Ahead of the publication of a book by Harding on his quarrels with Russia’s security forces, he describes being intimidated and having his flat regularly broken into, and his deportation and Russia’s u-turn in letting him [...]
Posted by Joel Gunter on 26 September 2011New York Times: No Justice for Anna Politkovskaya
Yesterday’s New York Times editorial was devoted to the case of murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Politkovskaya, who became known for her fearless investigative reporting of social issues in Russia and human rights abuses in Chechnya, was killed in her apartment building in 2006. Five years on, no one has been convicted of her murder. [...]
Posted by Joel Gunter on 14 September 2011BBC: Detained reporter is 'physically and psychologically frail'
BBC Central Asian Service journalist Urunboy Usmonov has been detained by Tajikistan authorities since June 13
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 29 June 2011Index on Censorship: Russian journalist defeats libel claim
Kommersant's political correspondent Oleg Kashin, who spent five days in a coma after an attack, defeated a libel claim after speculating on the identity of his attackers
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 28 June 2011Reporters Without Borders: Life sentence for Bahraini blogger
Two Bahraini bloggers handed long jail sentences, according to Reporters Without Borders
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 23 June 2011BBC and CPJ: Mexican journalist, wife and son shot dead
It believed Mexican journalist Miguel Angel Lopez Velasco, who wrote for Notiver, has been shot dead along with his wife and son
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 21 June 2011Index: Polish journalist faces four years in prison for 'insulting the president' of Belarus
Andrey Pochobut of Polish newspaper GazetaWyborcza, faces a prison sentence for defamation and 'insulting the president' of Belarus
Posted by Joel Gunter on 17 June 2011Reporters Without Borders: Journalist killed in Brazil on World Press Freedom day
Press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reports that a journalist, Valério Nascimento, was shot and killed in Brazil on Tuesday. The day of the shooting was also the day the world shone a light on the dangers and issues facing journalists across the world, for World Press Freedom day. “Nascimento’s murder, which took place [...]
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Three prizes of $10,000 will recognise online work to promote free expression
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