The editor-in-chief of western Turkish newspaper Güney Marmara’da Yaşam (Life in Southern Marmara) was ambushed and shot while leaving his office on Friday afternoon. Cihan Hayırsevener, 53, succumbed to his injuries later that evening in the Uludağ University Medical Faculty hospital in Bursa, according to news reports. A funeral service was held for Hayirsevener on […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today condemned the latest attacks on the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta. IPI calls on the Russian authorities to protect independent media and thoroughly investigate the threats against the newspaper and its staff. On Monday, March 15, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) condemns the murder on Tuesday of Dagestan-based newspaper editor Malik Akhmedilov, who was found dead in his car near the republic’s capital Makhachkala with bullet wounds to the stomach. Akhmedilov’s killing starkly underscores Russia’s worrying reputation as one of the most dangerous countries in the world for reporters.  According to […]

Women experience online abuse differently – and to a different degree. The same goes for female journalists.