Two highly-respected Western war photojournalists were among at least five people killed on Wednesday in the rebel-held city of Misrata when they were hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, international news reports said. At least two other journalists were wounded in the attack. Tim Hetherington, 41, was a British war photographer and filmmaker whose documentary “Restrepo,” […]

Deutsche Version finden Sie unten ******************************* The International Press Institute (IPI) on Wednesday announced that it will hold the Israeli-Palestinian Journalists Forum (IPJF), a dialogue initiative, in Vienna, Austria from 14-16 June 2011. The Forum aims to facilitate long-term dialogue about press freedom between journalists in Israel and the Palestinian Territories. IPI’s Constitution, originally adopted […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI,) on Tuesday condemned the physical attack on Csaba Szögi, a journalist with Képes Ifjúsá, the youth supplement of the Hungarian-language daily Magyar Szó, based in Novi Sad, Serbia. Szögi was beaten on 15 April 2011 by several individuals who […]

The political conflict in Ivory Coast may be approaching an end after the recent arrest of former President Laurent Gbagbo, but journalists are still working in fear – of reprisals. In the last few months of the conflict, the Ivory Coast media was strongly polarized. “Journalist have been attacked, and the publication of newspapers has […]