A journalist working for a radio station in Somalia was hit by stray bullets this week – the second such incident in a month – and the premises of a newspaper were struck by artillery shells during heavy fighting, according to reports. Two journalists who were detained by security forces of the transitional government last […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed concern over Somalia’s detention of an Al Jazeera English correspondent and two cameramen, even as it welcomed the release of the editor-in-chief of one of Somalia’s oldest daily newspapers who was detained on Saturday. Officers of Somalia’s National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) arrested Al Jazeera English correspondent […]

The body of a radio journalist was discovered on Tuesday in western Tanzania, bringing to two the number of reporters killed in the East African country in the past six months, and since IPI started tracking journalist deaths in 1997. Issa Ngumba, 45, was found hanging in a forest by Kakonko town, near the western […]

Amidst heavy topics such as Taiwan-China cross-strait relations and poverty in North Korea, “Innovations in Political Cartooning” seemed comparatively lighthearted. It was, in fact, a discussion of blatant infringements of free speech and the role of static images in the rapidly evolving electronic media. “With newspapers dropping like flies, cartoonists are often the first ones […]