Attacks on the Yemen media are on the rise, according to Khaled Al-Hammadi, a well-known Yemeni journalist and recent founder of Freedom Foundation, a Sanaa-based NGO set up to promote press freedom and development in Yemen. Al-Hammadi, 2011 winner of the International Press Freedom Award from the Toronto-based group Canadian Journalists for Free Expression, told […]

A cameraman in Benin City, Edo State, Nigeria, was killed by gunmen on Saturday evening at the home of a couple whose wedding he had been filming, local news reports said. Chuks Ogu, 39, had worked as a journalist for the privately-owned Independent Television, the Leadership newspaper reported. He was killed when gunmen burst into […]

The Central European Initiative (CEI), in cooperation with the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), has launched a Call for Proposals for the 2012 Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism. The application deadline is June 30, 2012. The award is open to nationals of 18 CEI […]

Lea en español One month after the Salvadoran online news site El Faro published a report that unleashed a storm of controversy in the country and prompted threats against its journalists, the International Press Institute (IPI) called today upon the government of El Salvador to take effective measures to protect press freedom in the country. […]