The arrest of two university students who were covering ‘Occupy’ protests in the U.S. city of Atlanta for their campus newspapers has raised concerns about police treatment of student journalists. Alisen Redmond, news editor of the Kennesaw State University (KSU) Sentinel and Judith Kim, a photography editor of the Georgia State University (GSU) Signal were […]

The International Press Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Mariela Hoyer Guerrero as Press Freedom Adviser for Latin America and the Caribbean. A native of Maracaibo, Venezuela, Hoyer spent most of her journalism career in Caracas with El Nacional, one of the country’s major independent daily newspapers. She has also contributed to national […]

As the “Occupy Wall Street” protests have spread across the United States, so too have arrests of journalists seeking to cover the demonstrations. The intimidation and harassment of reporters by authorities has not been confined to widely-publicised hotspots such as New York and Oakland, Calif., but has moved into the heartland, with recent arrests of […]

Turkish author and investigative reporter Nedim Şener has been convicted of no crime, but next week he will spend his 250th day in prison. Şener, a journalist with the Milliyet newspaper who was named an International Press Institute (IPI) World Press Freedom Hero in 2010 following the publication of his book on the 2007 murder […]