Solana Larsen is the managing editor at Global Voices, an online community of bloggers and digital activists. Global Voices emphasizes the awareness of citizen media, a topic highlighted in the IPI World Congress 2011 session entitled “Taiwan’s PeoPo Project – A Model for Citizen Journalism in the Future.” IPI: Can you briefly describe what Global […]

The International Press Institute is alarmed at continued reports of press freedom violations in post-Mubarak Egypt, particularly as an opposition newspaper was prevented from being distributed. Copies of the opposition Sawt Al-Ummah newspaper were confiscated and destroyed before they could be distributed, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) and Al-Arabiya reported.  Chief Editor […]

The International Press Institute deplores the brutal murder of María Elizabeth Macías Castro, 39. The journalist was abducted on Friday, 23 September, and her body was found the next day in Nuevo Laredo city, in the border state of Tamaulipas.  According to news reports, she was decapitated and left near a monument to Christopher Columbus […]

Umar Cheema is an investigative journalist for The News, the largest English-language newspaper in Pakistan. He was awarded the Daniel Pearl Journalism Fellowship in 2008, during which he worked at The New York Times. In September 2010, Cheema was abducted, beaten, purposely humiliated, photographed against his will and dumped six hours later outside Islamabad. Immediately after […]