A former editorial page editor for the Miami Herald, Joe Oglesby is the coordinator of the Haiti News Project, an international programme which provides assistance to Haitian print journalists harshly hit by the earthquake, just one year ago. The project involves journalism organisations like the American Society of News Editors, the Inter American Press Association, […]

Leading Austrian newspapers are to carry on Thursday an IPI Austria insert calling on the Hungarian government to withdraw recently-passed media legislation heavily criticised by top EU politicians, the OSCE, journalists and a host of press freedom and freedom of expression groups. The insert – signed by the IPI Austria National Committee, Reporters without Borders […]

The South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), strongly condemns the threat allegedly made by a local businessman against reporter Visar Duriqi, a correspondent for the daily newspaper Infopress in Pristina. According to Duriqi, on […]

One of Tunisia’s best-known bloggers and anti-censorship activists was arrested on Thursday, according to Global Voices Advocacy. Slim Amamou, who contributes to the Global Voices website, was going to work around 1pm when his friends and colleagues lost trace of him. He revealed his position, at the Ministry of Interior, around 6pm, through a geolocation […]