An information war has erupted around the world. The battle lines are drawn between those governments that regard the free flow of information, and the ability to access it, as a matter of fundamental human rights, and those that regard official control of information as a fundamental sovereign prerogative. The contest is being waged institutionally […]

On Aug. 19, 2012, Marin Mema, a reporter with Albanian Top Chanel TV was heading to Greece on a private visit when Greek border police denied him entry to the country, recalling a report of his on Greece a year earlier, Mema explained to SEEMO. He was handed a piece of paper on which he was […]

Japanese reporter Mika Yamamoto was killed on Monday in the Syrian city of Aleppo, where clashes between rebels and regime forces have raged for weeks. Yamamoto, a veteran war correspondent who covered the 2001 conflict in Afghanistan and the 2003 conflict in Iraq, was working for The Japan Press, an independent TV news provider that […]

Police in the Mexican state of Michoacán over the weekend discovered the dismembered body of a missing photojournalist said to have covered organised crime for a local newspaper. An inside source at the newspaper, Diario de Zamora, told AFP that Arturo Barajas, 46, had worked sensitive beats on a contractual basis. “When there were major […]