Iranian sports reporter and photographer Maryam Majd has been arrested and jailed in Tehran’s Evin prison, according to the Los Angeles Times. The reason for her arrest is still unknown, but International Campaign for Human Rights reports that Majd phoned her family on 21 June, five days after she was taken from her home by […]

Television and radio stations are broadcasting live from the trial of alleged perpetrators of the Maguindanao Massacre, the infamous 2009 mass murder of 57 people, including 34 journalists, in Maguindanao, Philippines. For the first time ever, the Philippines Supreme Court granted a petition by media groups to live-broadcast the court proceedings in Manila where former […]

In a session titled “Facebook Revolutions: The Media and the Uprisings in North Africa and the Middle East”, to be held on Monday, 26 September 2011, during the IPI World Congress in Taipei, panellists will examine the role that social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter, as well as online media outlets and the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed news that two France-3 journalists held hostage in Afghanistan since December 2009 have been freed. A representative from the television broadcaster’s foreign news desk confirmed to IPI that Stephane Taponier and Herve Ghesquiere had been released, but was unable to provide details. IPI Director Alison Bethel McKenzie said: […]