Jhonny Alberto Salazar, a councillor for Nagua and journalist for Vida FM and vidadominicana.com, has been found guilty of libelling lawyer, Pedro Baldera Gomez. Salazar could be the first journalist to go to jail in the Dominican Republic for defamation. Salazar made comments on his radio station about a number of murders in the area […]

A second round of applications is now being accepted for the IPI News Innovation Contest, a media innovation contest run by the International Press Institute (IPI) and funded by Google, Inc. The deadline for contest applications is 23 February 2012. At the end of 2011, the IPI News Innovation Contest team granted awards totaling more […]

Channels TV journalist Eneche Akogwu was killed in Kano city in Northern Nigeria last week while covering the aftermath of a major terrorist attack. Akogwu, 31, was a reporter and journalist for the privately-owned station. Members of the Islamist sect Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the explosions, which killed over 170 people, reports say. This […]

Over the past several years, a dire press-freedom situation has emerged in Latin America––now the most dangerous region in the world for journalists, with 105 media workers killed there since 2008, according to IPI’s Death Watch. In addition to the rising death toll, the number of death threats and instances of physical aggression against members […]