The International Press Institute (IPI) was relieved to learn that Yusuf Alli, and editor at The Nation newspaper, was released from government custody yesterday afternoon, according to reports. Mr. Alli has been told that he will not face criminal charges, he told the Associated Press. “No matter what the pressure, I won’t disclose my source,” Alli told […]

In his opening speech of the WAN-IFRA World Congress here in Vienna yesterday, President Jacob Mathew said something that really stuck with me. He said: “The reader trusts print more than any other media and our credibility is by far the best.” What I love about that statement is that it still gives credibility to traditional media. […]

Vladimir Gessen is the editor of Informe21.com and president of the digital media association Bloque de Prensa Digital. A version of this article in Spanish appeared on Informe21. It cannot be that the party of Abraham Lincoln, which always has defended freedom of expression as one of the fundamental principles of the U.S. Constitution, wants to […]

An Italian television station argued before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) yesterday that the Italian government should pay the station over two billion Euros for not allowing it to take to the airwaves for eleven years. Centro Europa 7 told judges at the Strasbourg court that the sanction was the only way to […]