The International Press Institute (IPI) said today that it is encouraged by Slovak authorities’ progress in honouring their commitment to revise the country’s controversial 2008 press law. An IPI delegation met Friday in Bratislava with Slovak Minister of Culture Daniel Krajcer, who said his government was proposing legislation that would change the “right to reply” […]

Abdost Rind, 27, was shot and killed by unidentified gunmen while returning home from work in Turbat, Balochistan province, on 18 February. Rind, a reporter with the Daily Eagle, an Urdu-language newspaper, was shot four times before the assailants escaped on a motorcycle. He died immediately. He is the second journalist to be murdered in […]

The successful overthrow of long-time autocrats in Egypt and Tunisia has prompted demonstrations across the region – and corresponding attempts by the authorities and pro-regime supporters in Bahrain, Iran, Yemen and Libya to clamp down on the free flow of news. Although the violence in Bahrain and Yemen has reportedly decreased since Saturday, journalists still […]

At an IPI event held yesterday at the International Press Institute’s headquarters in Vienna, Austria, Russian investigative journalist Galina Sidorova, who is IPI Vice-Chairwoman and the former editor-in-chief of the monthly Sovershenno Secretno, spoke about recent changes in the Russian media and the difficulties that Russian investigative journalists face today. “The media situation has worsened […]