Two Mexican journalists have been killed in Monterrey in the northern state of Nuevo León in a murder that appears to be tied to organized crime. José Luis “La Gata” Cerda Meléndez, 33, host of the “El Club” program on national TV channel Televisa, and Luis Emanuel Ruíz Carrillo, 20, a reporter for daily “La […]

The International Press Institute today announced that it had been awarded a grant of $200,000 from the New York-based Ford Foundation. The 18-month grant will be used to support IPI’s core mission. The Ford Foundation grant will enable IPI to continue its work in three focus areas this year: the promotion of high standards of […]

The International Press Institute today expressed its deep concern over the treatment of journalists from news agency Reuters in Syria, where protests against the authoritarian government of President Bashar Al-Assad have spread in recent days despite the use of violence against demonstrators. Reuters’ Damascus-based correspondent Khaled Yacoub Oweis was ordered out of the troubled country […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today firmly condemned an attack on Azerbaijani journalist Seymur Haziyev, who was reportedly kidnapped early Saturday morning outside of Baku by masked men who beat him and told him to “be smart.” Haziyev, of the opposition Azadliq (Freedom) Newspaper, said that six assailants speaking Russian among themselves put a sack […]