The International Press Institute (IPI) today said that it was deeply troubled by news that the U.S. Justice Department secretly seized two months of telephone records of Associated Press (AP) journalists and the group demanded an explanation. AP CEO Gary Pruitt protested the “massive and unprecedented intrusion” into AP’s newsgathering activities in a letter to […]

The International Press Institute (IPI)’s Turkish National Committee today condemned a media blackout on news about a bomb attack on Saturday that killed 46 people in a town near Turkey’s border with Syria. Turkish daily newspaper Hurriyet reported that Turkey’s broadcasting regulator, the Supreme Board of Radio and Television (RTÜK), limited media coverage of the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the attack on a journalist in Benghazi and called upon the authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice and to provide better security for reporters. According to the Libya Herald, on May 4 a group of armed men attacked Mabruka Almesmari, a female freelance photojournalist, during a peaceful […]

The International Press Institute and the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) today welcomed the passage of seminal legislation in Mexico designed to combat the almost complete impunity in cases of crimes committed against the country’s journalists. The changes to the Federal Code on Penal Procedure, among other statutes – all of which […]