The International Press Institute (IPI) will hold its annual World Congress in Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan), from 24-27 September 2011, the organisation today officially announced. The 2011 World Congress will mark the return of IPI’s annual event to East Asia after 12 years, when the world’s media community convened in Taipei in 1999. Themed “The […]

Britain’s ITV News was on Wednesday banned from a police press conference after running a report criticising the police’s handling of an investigation into the murder of Joanna Yeates, a landscape architect whose body was found on the outskirts of Bristol last month, the Guardian newspaper reported. Avon & Somerset police have complained to Britain’s […]

As a violent political crisis continues to grip Ivory Coast, press freedom in the country is deteriorating, according to media reports. Journalists have been arrested, newspaper publication has been hindered and some foreign channels are not being broadcast. Despite losing to Alassane Ouattara in elections in November, President Laurent Gbagbo has held on to power […]

Hungary’s newly-instituted media council (NMHH) launched an inquiry into Tilos radio station in September, according to a letter from the council on the station’s website, (English information here). The inquiry relates to the station’s broadcast of two songs by American rapper Ice-T in its 1730h program. According to the letter from the NMHH, the songs’ lyrics […]