The Cuban government has revoked the credentials of a longtime foreign correspondent because of his alleged negative reporting, news reports said. The journalist has reported from Cuba for Spanish newspaper El País and the radio network Cadena SER for 20 years but is now barred from working as a journalist on the island, El País […]

A managing editor for an independent student newspaper was excluded from a pre-season interview session with University of Kentucky basketball players because in his capacity as a journalist he telephoned two of them without the green light from the media relations department, the Louisville Courier-Journal newspaper reported on 31 August. The case has drawn attention […]

IPI is alarmed to learn that Journalistes en Danger (JED) President Donat M’Baya Tshimanga and JED Secretary-General Tshivis Tshivuadi have received death threats in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in connection with their press freedom work. According to Reporters without Borders, Tshivuadi and Tshimanga received an Email at around 2 pm on 26 August […]

Legislative Decree No. 108, passed by the Syrian Cabinet on Sunday 28 August, will entrench government control over the media, criminalize criticism, and put media regulation in the direct control of the Syrian cabinet, according to IPI’s analysis of a summary published by the Syrian Arab News Agency. According to the SANA summary, the law […]