The devastating earthquake and tsunami, which hit Japan on 11 March 2011, caused major difficulties for several newspapers along the eastern coast of the Tohoku region, which includes the prefectures of Aomori, Akita, Iwate, Yamagata, Miyagi and Fukushima. Newspaper companies have suffered water and fuel outages and are currently utilizing back-up electric-power generators or have […]

Four journalists from The New York Times who were reporting on the Libyan unrest have gone missing, the newspaper reported on Wednesday, 16 March. The Libyan government has said it will help locate the journalists, and has given its assurance that if the journalists were captured, they would be released unharmed, Bill Keller, executive editor […]

Thai webmaster, Thanthawut Taweewarodomkul, was sentenced to 13 years in prison by a criminal court in Bangkok on 15 March in connection with material posted on the website, Nor Por Chor USA, in March 2010. Nor Por Chor USA is reportedly affiliated with the anti-government Red Shirt movement. According to Thai police, three comments deemed […]

International Press Institute Director Alison Bethel McKenzie and Press Freedom Manager Anthony Mills are in Istanbul on an emergency visit to the IPI Turkish National Committee and the Turkish Journalists Association to add their voices to those calling for the release of IPI Press Freedom Hero Nedim Şener and the many other journalists being detained […]