German freelance journalists Thomas Datt and Arndt Ginzel could have been forgiven for assuming that their 2010 criminal trial for defamation would end in an acquittal. The application of Germany’s criminal libel provisions to journalists, as commentators observed, was itself already so unusual that the possibility of an actual conviction must have seemed utterly inconceivable. […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today mourned the death of long-time member and Nigerian journalist Dimgba Igwe. IPI’s Nigerian National Committee on Friday issued a statement saying that it “received with shock the news of the sudden death of its distinguished member and media icon, Mr. Dimgba Igwe”, 58, who was struck by a car […]

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today announced that it will hold a one-day conference on press freedom, the influence of politics on media, and corruption on Sept. 23, 2014 in Bucharest, Romania. The event will be opened by Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta and by […]

It was the kind of small-town political scandal that would scarcely raise an eyebrow in cities with bigger fish to fry. But when Jornal do Centro, a weekly newspaper in the central Portuguese town of Viseu, suggested in 2002 that a local courthouse’s donation of used furniture to charity was marred by favouritism, it apparently […]