Ecuador’s media regulator on Friday ordered the daily newspaper El Universo to issue a public apology over a political cartoon satirising a lawmaker from President Rafael Correa’s party. In a statement, the Superintendent of Information and Communication (Supercom) said the cartoon amounted to “socio-economic discrimination” against the Afro-Ecuadorian community and therefore violated Ecuador’s Communications Law. […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed the announcement that an Egyptian court has ordered Al Jazeera journalists Baher Mohamed and Mohamed Fahmy freed on bail. The move today came nearly two weeks after the deportation of the journalists’ Australian colleague, Peter Greste, and followed international outcry demanding the pair’s release. Fahmy, a former Egyptian-Canadian […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called for Honduran authorities to fully investigate the death of TV journalist Carlos Fernández, who was fatally shot on Thursday in front of his home on the Caribbean island of Roátan. Carlos Gutiérrez, a colleague of Fernández who was with him on the night of the attack, told Univision that the journalist was […]

“What is amazing is that I am forced to feel brave to do my job here, at my house,” Spanish journalist Mayte Carrasco, who has covered major conflicts worldwide over the past eight years, says.

She made that statement within hours after she received more than 100 insulting and threatening messages through Twitter following the primetime, Jan. 20 broadcast of a documentary about Islamic fundamentalism that included comments by Carrasco.