The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), has announced that Kosovo journalist Jeta Xharra is the winner of the 2012 Dr. Erhard Busek – SEEMO Award for Better Understanding in South East Europe. A 10-member international jury chose Xharra for the award based on her outstanding […]

Somali journalist Mohamed Mohamoud Tuuryare died yesterday, one week after gunmen shot him while he was on his way home from running an errand, the National Union of Somali Journalists and other news reports said. Tuuryare – 23 or 25 years old, depending on reports – was pronounced dead at Madina Hospital, where he was […]

Unknown attackers have launched Molotov cocktails against journalists’ homes in Serbia’s capital Belgrade in two incidents in one week. At 3:30 on Oct. 23, someone launched a Molotov cocktail at the terrace of Biljana Vujovic, a presenter with TV Kopernikus. Vujovic, who was lucky to be awake, was able to react quickly and to extinguish […]

On Oct. 23, unknown assailants gunned down Pakistani journalist Khalid Musa Mengal, a reporter with the daily newspaper Ummat in Turbat, Balochistan province, the Rural Media Network Pakistan (RMNP) reported. Condemning the murder as a „barbaric act“, RMNP noted that most attacks against journalists are never investigated and go unpunished. Balochistan is the most dangerous […]