At least 83* journalists around the world died as a direct result of their job in 2016, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today, a significant decline in comparison to record-breaking counts over the past five years. Nearly half of journalist deaths – 36 – occurred while covering armed conflict, mostly in Iraq, Syria and Yemen. […]

An American journalist and his Afghan translator were killed in southern Afghanistan yesterday afternoon when the convoy in which they were travelling came under fire by Taliban insurgents. U.S. media outlet National Public Radio (NPR) and the Afghan Military confirmed the deaths of journalist David Gilkey and his Afghan translator Zabihullah Tamanna. Gilkey was placed […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed concern over the deaths of two Kurdish journalists – one murdered in Duhok City in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, the other killed while covering fighting between Kurdish Peshmerga forces and Islamic State group militants near Mosul – within a period of just two days. Mustafa Said, a cameraman for […]

The International Press institute (IPI) today called on Mexican authorities to conduct full investigations into the shootings of two journalists in the states of Oaxaca and Tamaulipas within 24 hours this week and not to rule out any theories prematurely. According to news reports, unidentified motorcyclists shot Elidio Ramos Zarate*, who wrote under the pseudonym […]