Fiji is on the verge of passing a new media law that could allow the government to imprison journalists for up to five years, ban the ownership of a news organization by anyone other than a Fiji journalist, and allow fines of up to half a million Fiji dollars to be levied against media organizations. […]

A cameraman working for Nigerian broadcaster Channels Television was assaulted on Tuesday in a clash that erupted following an attack on the vehicle of the Action Congress (AC) governorship candidate in Ekiti State, according to local media reports, and Channels Television News Editor Ronke Raji. Felix was attacked when he attempted to film the violence. […]

In a video released by the Taliban in Afghanistan on Monday, two French journalists who were kidnapped in December say they will be killed unless the Taliban’s demands are met. The two journalists, Stephane Taponnier and Herve Ghesquiere, both employed by France 3 television, were kidnapped in December in Afghanistan’s northeastern Kapisa province, along with […]

A Reuters cameraman was among at least 21 people killed in clashes between anti-government protesters and security forces in Thailand’s capital, Bangkok, on Saturday. Hiro Muramoto, 43, a Japanese national who had been employed with Reuters’ Tokyo bureau for the past fifteen years, was reporting on the violence that gripped Bangkok over the weekend, when […]