María Teresa Ronderos is the president of the Colombian Foundation for Freedom of the Press (FLIP) and a teacher at the Foundation for the Ibero American New Journalism (FNPI). She is also a consulting editor for Semana, a prestigious economic and political magazine, which reported on the illegal wire- tapping of politicians and journalists between […]

A Sri Lankan court on Thursday placed a national ban on the news website LankaeNews.com until 12 May. The court also extended the remand of Shantha Wijesooriya – a journalist working for the website who was arrested on 25 April for contempt of court – until 12 May, when the next court hearing is scheduled […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed alarm at the death of Salvadoran Channel 33 television cameraman Alfredo Hurtado, who was gunned down on a bus Tuesday evening in suburban San Salvador on his way to work. Authorities said two unknown young men boarded the bus, approached Hurtado and opened fire, leaving a dozen bullet […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned arson threats against the Liberian Daily Observer that were made on 2 April. The publisher and the marketing manager of the Monrovia-based Daily Observer each recently received threatening phone calls from an unknown caller who said that Publisher and Managing Director Kenneth Y. Best’s house would be burnt […]