Promoting self-regulation in the Serbian media has not been an easy task for the Press Council (Savet za stampu), the Serbian self-regulatory body founded seven years ago. Modelled on Norway’s Press Complaints Commission, the Serbian Press Council and accompanying Complaints Commission consist of representatives from founding publishers and media owners; journalists and their main associations; […]

Two Mexican journalists have been murdered in separate attacks since the beginning of July, raising the number of killings of journalists in the country to nine so far in 2018. Rubén Pat Cahuich, director of the Playa News online news site, was shot dead in the street outside a bar in Playa del Carmen, in […]

The news came through in the morning of February 25, 2018. A young Slovak investigative journalist and his fiancée had been shot dead in their home. For Christoph Lehermayr, an Austrian investigative journalist working at the time in Vienna, the reaction was one of shock and disbelief. “I couldn’t believe what had happened. This wasn’t […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on Ukrainian authorities to investigate a recent arson attack on the office of investigative website Chetverta Vlada in Rivne, northwestern Ukraine. Separately, IPI asked Ukrainian authorities to explain the seizure of Kiev newsrooms belonging to the media company Vesti and to allow the company’s journalists access to their […]