At a panel discussion on “Improving the safety of traditional media workers and new media practitioners,” sponsored by the International Press Institute (IPI) in the course of UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day conference in Tunis, Tunisia, panellists and other participants sought to identify effective mechanisms to ensure the safety of journalists worldwide. “Murders and other […]

Almost every day this month, another journalist has been murdered, according to the IPI Death Watch and news reports. Six journalists lost their lives in May, all in countries where those who murder to silence the media are rarely punished. The most recent victim was Philippine journalist Nestor Libaton, a news reporter for the Catholic […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), calls on Moldova’s authorities to bring to justice the individuals who severely beat cameraman Vladmir Vivaci. On 5 May 2012, the camera operator working for the Omega news agency was beaten by four men who stepped out of a […]

The op-ed below was first published on 3 May 2012, World Press Freedom Day. Reporters Targeted in Record Numbers and Brutal Ways By Alison Bethel McKenzie, IPI Executive Director How to kill a journalist: Behead; gun down; throw, with hands and feet bound, from a seventh-floor window; torture to death; blow up; deny medical care […]