World press freedom hero and co-founder of Velvet Revolution newspaper “Lidové Noviny” (People’s News) Jiri Dienstbier died of natural causes on Saturday at the age of 73. From 1969 until the end of Communism in Czechoslovakia in 1989, he was one of the major intellectuals associated with the dissident group Charter 77, a political and […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) will hold its annual World Congress in Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan), from 24-27 September 2011, the organisation today officially announced. The 2011 World Congress will mark the return of IPI’s annual event to East Asia after 12 years, when the world’s media community convened in Taipei in 1999. Themed “The […]

Britain’s ITV News was on Wednesday banned from a police press conference after running a report criticising the police’s handling of an investigation into the murder of Joanna Yeates, a landscape architect whose body was found on the outskirts of Bristol last month, the Guardian newspaper reported. Avon & Somerset police have complained to Britain’s […]

As a violent political crisis continues to grip Ivory Coast, press freedom in the country is deteriorating, according to media reports. Journalists have been arrested, newspaper publication has been hindered and some foreign channels are not being broadcast. Despite losing to Alassane Ouattara in elections in November, President Laurent Gbagbo has held on to power […]