The Venezuelan government on Saturday ordered cable networks to stop broadcasting opposition TV station RCTV. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez had already faced international criticism in 2007, for forcing the station off free-access television. Chavez has long been accused by opposition leaders and press freedom observers of seeking to suppress private media in Venezuela, to snuff […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) on Friday launched a call for World Press Freedom Hero Award nominations, to coincide with its 60th year of defending and promoting press freedom worldwide. IPI will honour a total of 60 World Press Freedom Heroes in a ceremony at the IPI World Congress in Vienna, Austria and Bratislava, Slovakia […]

Jared Malsin, editor of the English section of Ma’an News Agency was deported by the Israeli authorities on Wednesday. Following a week in custody at Ben Gurion International Airport, the American journalist was flown to New York City yesterday morning. Malsin was detained on 12 January at the airport after landing, as he and his […]

The Foreign Correspondents Club of China warned its members in a statement on the Club’s website on 18 January that “foreign correspondents in a few bureaus in Beijing have recently discovered that their Gmail (Google) accounts have been hijacked.” Last week, Internet giant Google announced that its servers had been the targets of a highly […]