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Mexican investigative reporter murdered

A Mexican investigative journalist working for a prominent national newsmagazine was found beaten and strangled to death in her home in the Veracruz state capital of Xalapa on Satuday, news reports said. Regina Martínez was the Veracruz correspondent for Proceso, a weekly publication considered to be one of the country’s leading sources for coverage of […]

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UPDATE: Bomb attacks on Nigerian newspapers

A total of eight casualties have been confirmed following attacks on media houses in Nigeria on Thursday, April 26. Militant Islamist group Boko Haram has allegedly claimed responsibility for the attack. A suicide bomber in an explosives-laden car drove into the offices of ThisDay newspaper in Abuja, while a bomb was thrown at a building […]

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IPI Focus: World Press Freedom Day 2012 – The story of Mohamed Ibrahim

In Somalia, a nation of ever-shifting fortunes, the first few months of 2012 have been particularly deadly for the media. Four journalists have been killed in the war-weary East African state this year – one each month. Only Syria has been more dangerous. Numerous other Somali journalists have been wounded in or narrowly escaped assassination […]

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South Africa panel issues recommendations to improve media self-regulation

Nearly 200 journalists gathered here at the No. 4 Old Fort Women’s Prison on a day that seemed to usher in the beginning of winter to hear the much-anticipated findings of the organization charged with designing a “gold standard” regulatory system for print media. It was only a year-and-a-half ago that observers from around the […]

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