All 27 executive board members of the International Press Institute (IPI), the world’s oldest global press freedom organisation, expressed unanimous support last week for Israeli journalist Uri Blau. Blau faces charges under Israel’s Espionage Act and seven years in prison over articles he wrote for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz using classified military documents passed to […]

A two-day conference on “Media Development in Myanmar” started today in Rangoon, Burma. Organised by Burma’s Ministry of Information and Culture in cooperation with UNESCO and other international donors and media development organisations, the conference aims at sharing international best practices on media development, as Burma reforms its tightly controlled media system. “IPI warmly welcomes […]

The Syrian conflict continues and the country remains a black hole for the mainstream media, with foreign news outlets relying heavily on accounts from activists and citizen reporters to provide news and images, and reports from the correspondents who bravely manage to cross into the country. Two Turkish journalists who had been missing since Sunday, […]

Lea en español A Colombian radio journalist and former mayor was shot and killed Thursday after being lured from his office in the city of Dosquebradas, approximately 170 kilometers southeast of Bogotá. A regional police commander told local media that Argemiro Cárdenas Agudelo, 56, had received a phone call early Thursday afternoon while working inside […]