The International Press Institute today expressed concern about recent arrests of bloggers, restrictions on news organisations and other breaches of free expression in Malaysia. In the past month, the authorities arrested six bloggers, denied several news organisations access to the dominant political party’s general assembly, and banned two opposition newspapers, according to IPI sources in […]

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) supports the Union of Cyprus Journalists in defending the role of the media in Cyprus. According to information before SEEMO, on 19 March 2009, the Criminal Court of Cyprus accused the media of influencing public opinion in a trial against policemen. In defending the role of the media, […]

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) strongly condemns the recent threats made against Slobodan Vaskovic, a journalist from Banja Luka, Republika Srpska (Bosnia and Herzegovina). Vaskovic received a threatening letter, signed by a group calling itself the Serbian Avengers, following reports about the Serbian Orthodox Church in his publication, Novi Magazin. According to the […]

Jacob Weisberg, Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, Slate Group, New York spoke to IPI’s Nayana Jayarajan about the ongoing transformation within the news industry. Click player to hear the interview. INTERVIEW: IPI: Is the growth of online media a challenge or an opportunity for broadcast news? Jacob Weisberg: I think it is a challenge economically, I think it’s an opportunity editorially, […]