Joel Fitzgibbon, the government’s chief whip, called for stronger privacy laws and greater government regulation in an effort to raise media standards, after a news channel had knowingly broadcast false allegations made against Labor MP Craig Thomson. The scandal involving a prostitute had been reported by Channel Nine, despite the woman’s recanting of her own […]

Lea en español The International Press Institute (IPI) and the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) this morning called on Mexican authorities to immediately investigate last Friday’s mysterious disappearance of a Mexican crime journalist and her two-year-old son. Hypathia Stephanía Rodríguez Cardoso, who works for Zócalo de Saltillo newspaper in the state of […]

Lea en español Beginning this week, IPI will undertake a two-week, four-nation mission in the Caribbean to push for the repeal of criminal defamation laws. From June 9 to 22, IPI delegates will visit Barbados, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago to meet with representatives of government, media, and civil society. As part […]

Read in English Iniciando esta semana, el IPI emprenderá una misión de dos semanas en cuatro naciones del Caribe para insistir en la revocación de las leyes que penalizan la difamación. Entre el 9 y 22 de junio delegados del IPI visitarán Barbados, República Dominicana, Jamaica y Trinidad y Tobago para reunirse con representantes del […]