Two foreign journalists and a Syrian videographer have been killed by mortar shells in the Syrian city of Homs, where areas of the city have been under siege since the beginning of the month, news reports say. Marie Colvin of the London-based Sunday Times and French photographer Remi Ochlik, 28, were killed when a rocket […]

Beleaguered former FIFA Vice President Jack Warner has threatened to sue a Trinidadian journalist for defamation after the journalist reported on Warner’s alleged role in a growing financial scandal involving a missing half-million euros meant for Haiti’s football federation. Speaking to the International Press Institute (IPI), the journalist, Lasana Liburd, called the threat an act […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed disappointment at New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s claim that police surveillance of Muslim student groups at campuses throughout the Northeast was necessary to protect press freedom. Responding to criticism by Yale President Richard Levin, Bloomberg told reporters at a press conference yesterday: “You are not going to […]

A freelance journalist who had investigated illegal mining activity, his wife and their two children were found brutally murdered in their home in India’s Madhya Pradesh state on Saturday night. Indian national media reported that Chandrika Rai, his wife, Durga, and their children, Jalaj (19) and Nisha (17) had been killed with a sharp object […]