The International Press Institute (IPI) is saddened to learn that media worker Ali Abu Afash was killed in Gaza on Wednesday, according to reports. Afash, who worked for the Gaza Centre for Media Freedom as a translator and journalist, had accompanied an IPI delegation during its visit to Gaza in 2013. Daoud Kuttab, an IPI […]

The ink is still fresh on Elides Rojas July 5 column in which he promised that the editorial line at El Universal, one of Venezuela’s oldest publications, would not change as a result of the sale of the newspaper last July. El Universal became the third leading private media company to be sold in Venezuela […]

The Ethiopian government announced on Monday that it has filed criminal charges against five of the country’s largest-selling magazines and an affiliated newspaper, local media reported. The Ministry of Justice said in a statement that the six periodicals and their publishers face charges due to “repeated acts of incitement and dissemination of false rumors intended […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today strongly condemned Ethiopian authorities’ decision to bring terrorism charges against three journalists and seven bloggers. The group, one of whom was charged in absentia, is accused of planning attacks to “destabilize” Ethiopia and working with the U.S.-based opposition group, Ginbot 7, which Ethiopian authorities consider a terrorist organisation, news […]