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Missing photographer Anton Hammerl killed six weeks ago in Libya
Hammerl was believed to be being held by pro-Gaddafi forces in Liyba but fellow journalists released yesterday revealed that he was shot dead
Posted by Joel Gunter on 20/05/11Al Jazeera journalist tells of 'terrifying experience' in Syrian detention
Freed journalist Dorothy Parvaz said she heard 'severe beatings' after being detained upon her arrival in Syria in April, before being deported to Iran
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 19/05/11Libyan government releases British journalist after six weeks
Nigel Chandler was detained last month near the eastern town of Brega along with Americans Clare Gillis and James Foley, Spanish photographer Manu Brabo, and UK-based photographer Anton Hammerl
Posted by Joel Gunter on 19/05/11Al Jazeera confirms release of detained journalist Dorothy Parvaz
Qatar-based broadcaster confirms Parvaz landed in Doha today on a flight from Iran, 19 days after she was detained in Syria
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 18/05/11YouTube launches memorial channel for journalists
New channel is being launched in conjunction with the with the Newseum in Washington DC, a museum dedicated to the news industry
Posted by Joel Gunter on 16/05/11Hungary faces criticism over media law from UN Human Rights Council
Representatives from countries including the UK, US, Germany, Belgium, and Holland addressed concerns over the law to Hungary's minister for social inclusion Zoltan Balog
Posted by Joel Gunter on 11/05/11'Freedom of the press is something you have to learn'
Erik Bjerager and Marcel van Linge, of the World Editors Forum
Posted by Erik Bjerager and Marcel van Linge on 05/05/11Reporters Without Borders publishes 'predators of press freedom' list
Press freedom group has compiled list of political leaders, criminal organisations and militias accused of abuses against freedom of expression
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 03/05/11Imprisoned Iranian journalist named laureate of UNESCO press freedom prize
Golden Pen Award winner Ahmad Zeidabadi has been made laureate of the UNESCO Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize while serving a six-year prison sentence
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 08/04/11European parliament insists on further changes to Hungary's media law
MEPs have voted in favour of a resolution calling on the country to amend its legislation, which violates EU rules on press freedom
Posted by Joel Gunter on 10/03/11European parliament delays vote on Hungary's controversial media law
Vote on resolution postponed after MEPs request more time to assess last-minute changes by the Hungarian government
Posted by Joel Gunter on 18/02/11Hungary's EU presidency may not be enough to stop the press freedom rot
Oliver Vujovic, secretary general of International Press Institute affiliate SEEMO, warns that Hungary's new media law may stick, despite assurances that it will change
Posted by Phil Cain on 09/02/11Death of online journalists 'increasingly prominent', CPJ reports
Yearly report from CPJ suggests at least 42 journalists were killed in relation to their work in 2010
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 17/12/10Number of imprisoned journalists rises to highest level since 1996
New figures from the Committee to Protect Journalists suggest that 145 reporters, editors and photojournalists are in jail in 28 countries
Posted by Laura Oliver on 09/12/10#cablegate: Media figures come to defence of Assange after arrest on sex charges
Journalist John Pilger yesterday offered bail surety for the WikiLeaks founder and Frontline Club founder Vaughan Smith has pledged support
Posted by Laura Oliver on 08/12/10#cablegate: Al-Jazeera an 'instrument of Qatari influence', according to leak
Broadcaster denies any outside influence on editorial policy, which it says is 'guided by the principles of the free press'
Posted by Laura Oliver on 06/12/10#cablegate: Newspapers playing a vital role in giving context to leak, says Rusbridger
Speaking on the Today programme this morning, Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger said that affiliate newspapers are essential to provide redactions and contest to WikiLeaks material
Posted by Laura Oliver on 29/11/10CPJ honours journalists across globe for press freedom struggles
International Press Freedom Awards went to journalists from Russia, Ethiopia, Iran and Venezuela at a ceremony in New York on Tuesday night
Posted by Laura Oliver on 25/11/10Yahoo and AOL UK join petition to modernise UK libel law
Open letter to David Cameron, also signed by Mumsnet and the Internet Service Providers Association, warns that current law is curbing free speech online
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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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Guardian correspondent wins Amnesty award for Egyptian uprisings coverage
Jack Shenker won the Gaby Rado Memorial Award for his reports from Egypt, including details of his own arrest
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 25/05/11