A man interviewed by the BBC Persian service, Hasan Fathi, has been detained by security agents, according to international media reports. Fathi was reportedly interviewed on Saturday about the blast at an ammunition depot that killed at least 17 soldiers. The BBC has said it has no employees in Iran, and had interviewed Fathi only […]

A journalist in Nigeria has been arrested and will be sued for libel over an article he wrote revealing alleged corruption in the Nigerian Football Federation. Olajide Fashikun, editor of the National Accord newspaper in the capital Abuja, was arrested by a plain clothes police officer, after he wrote a series of articles about a […]

The arrest of two university students who were covering ‘Occupy’ protests in the U.S. city of Atlanta for their campus newspapers has raised concerns about police treatment of student journalists. Alisen Redmond, news editor of the Kennesaw State University (KSU) Sentinel and Judith Kim, a photography editor of the Georgia State University (GSU) Signal were […]

The International Press Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Mariela Hoyer Guerrero as Press Freedom Adviser for Latin America and the Caribbean. A native of Maracaibo, Venezuela, Hoyer spent most of her journalism career in Caracas with El Nacional, one of the country’s major independent daily newspapers. She has also contributed to national […]