Peruvian journalist Pedro Flores Silva, 36, died today after hovering between life and death since Tuesday night, when he was shot by a hooded individual while he was on his way home, the Press and Society Institute (IPYS) reported. On 6 September an unidentified person following the journalist, who was riding on a motorcycle, shot the television […]

The Cuban government has revoked the credentials of a longtime foreign correspondent because of his alleged negative reporting, news reports said. The journalist has reported from Cuba for Spanish newspaper El País and the radio network Cadena SER for 20 years but is now barred from working as a journalist on the island, El País […]

A managing editor for an independent student newspaper was excluded from a pre-season interview session with University of Kentucky basketball players because in his capacity as a journalist he telephoned two of them without the green light from the media relations department, the Louisville Courier-Journal newspaper reported on 31 August. The case has drawn attention […]

IPI is alarmed to learn that Journalistes en Danger (JED) President Donat M’Baya Tshimanga and JED Secretary-General Tshivis Tshivuadi have received death threats in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in connection with their press freedom work. According to Reporters without Borders, Tshivuadi and Tshimanga received an Email at around 2 pm on 26 August […]