The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is alarmed at the political pressure being exercised on media in both Romania and Bulgaria. According to information received by SEEMO, on 13 April […]

A cameraman was killed, and a reporter injured, on Friday, when a bomb exploded at a hospital in Quetta, in western Pakistan. Malik Arif, a cameraman with Pakistan’s Samaa TV, was among at least 10 people killed, when a bomb exploded at the Civil Hospital in Quetta this morning. The television station said at least […]

Another journalist was killed in a suicide bomb blast Saturday in Pakistan, tragically underscoring the country’s reputation as one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists. Azmat Ali Bangash, a correspondent working part-time for the Associated Press of Pakistan (APP), as well as for Pakistan TV, was killed when two bombs exploded […]

Days after Islamist insurgent group Hizbul Islam banned radio stations in Mogadishu from playing music of any description, journalists in the embattled Somali capital found themselves facing an ultimatum from the government after it announced that all radio stations complying with the ban would face closure. According to the National Union of Somali Journalists, (NUSOJ), […]