Read in English Esta mañana, el Instituto Internacional de Prensa (IPI, por sus siglas en inglés) y la Asociación Mundial de Periódicos y Editores de Noticias (WAN-IFRA) hicieron un llamamiento a las autoridades mexicanas exigiendo el inmediato esclarecimiento de la desaparición el pasado viernes de una periodista mexicana de fuente policíaca y su hijo de […]

Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa over the weekend announced he was “seriously considering” directing government ministers to only grant interviews to public media, the latest incident in the leftist administration’s clampdown on critical press. “Why do we have to give interviews … to Televisa, to Teleamazonas, to El Universo if they are private businesses?” Correa asked, according […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned cyber-attacks that brought down the websites of Russian media outlets that had broadcast information about opposition activities ahead of a mass protest rally scheduled in Moscow. AFP reported that attacks brought down the website of radio station Ekho Moskvy approximately 30 minutes before protesters started gathering for a […]

Joel Fitzgibbon, the government’s chief whip, called for stronger privacy laws and greater government regulation in an effort to raise media standards, after a news channel had knowingly broadcast false allegations made against Labor MP Craig Thomson. The scandal involving a prostitute had been reported by Channel Nine, despite the woman’s recanting of her own […]