As parliamentary hearings on the Protection of Information Bill begin in South Africa today, the International Press Institute expressed its concern over many of the provisions contained in the draft legislation, arguing that they should explicitly take into account journalists acting in the public interest. The original draft of the Protection of Information Bill is […]

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), strongly condemns yesterday’s attack on Caslav Milisavljevic, Editor-in-Chief of Radio Kosovska Mitrovica, in the Kosovo municipality of Zvecan. According to information received by SEEMO, during the […]

The International Press Institute urges the U.S State Department to reconsider its decision to deny a visa to independent Colombian journalist Hollman Morris. Morris, who was awarded the prestigious  Nieman Fellowship to spend a year at Harvard University, was informed on 16 June that his visa had been rejected under the Patriot Act (2001) because […]

The first six months of 2010 have proved less deadly for journalists than the first half of 2009, according to the International Press Institute’s (IPI) ‘Six-Month Death Watch Report’, issued on Monday. By 30 June 2010, 38 journalists had lost their lives because of their work, compared to 43 at the same point in 2009. […]