The following is a condensed version of a presentation on trends in global communication given by International Press Institute (IPI) Board Member Linus Gitahi, CEO of the Nation Media Group in Kenya, at the International Institute of Communications (IIC) Annual Conference 2011 in Johannesburg, South Africa on 3 October. Trends In Global Communication: Making Digital […]

A French television journalist was killed and a Belgian radio journalist injured in the western Syrian city of Homs today, when a demonstration came under fire, news reports said. The French journalist has been identified as Gilles Jacquier, a long-time war correspondent for France 2 television. According to Ian Black, Middle East editor for The […]

A petition led by the International Press Institute (IPI) calling for the release of imprisoned Turkish investigative journalist and IPI World Press Freedom Hero Nedim Şener has already received over 3,000 signatures. On 5 January, an Istanbul court declined once again to release Şener, who has spent nearly 300 days in prison. Şener and nine […]

Unknown gunmen shot a Mexican journalist dead on Friday in the country’s first murder of a journalist this year. AP reported that journalist Raul Quirino Garza, a municipal employee who also worked for local weekly newspaper La Ultima Palabra, was killed on Friday in the state of Monterrey. A spokesman for the state detectives agency, […]