The Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) has begun the process of setting up a statutory media council, The Zimbabwean reported last week. Godfrey Majonga of the ZMC, which last year began the work of licensing media, reportedly told a meeting of editors that the ZMC wants to “kick-start” this process, as they have been receiving an increasing number […]

Journalist Nedim Şener, one of the International Press Institute (IPI)’s World Press Freedom Heroes, has been ordered arrested by an Istanbul court as part of a controversial probe into an alleged plot to overthrow the government, IPI has learned from its Turkish National Committee. Şener and journalist Ahmet Şık, who were detained along with other […]

Mahmoud Jabari, a journalist and blogger for Al-Jazeera Talk and the World Youth News service – a global online news project for 14-19 year-old students – was released from Israeli custody yesterday afternoon, he told IPI by telephone today. Jabari, 19, was arrested while taking photographs of a demonstration in Hebron on Friday 25 February, […]

A threatening handwritten letter addressed to four prominent Italian journalists was delivered in an envelope also containing four bullets to the headquarters of Italy’s public broadcaster, RAI, in Rome’s Via Teulada on 1 March. The envelope was addressed to journalists Michele Santoro, Marco Travaglio, Gianni Barbacetto and Peter Gomez. RAI journalist and anchorman Michele Santoro, […]