The U.S State Department has reversed its decision to deny a visa to noted independent Colombian journalist Hollman Morris. Morris will now be able to travel to Harvard University to take up a year-long Nieman Foundation fellowship. The journalist, who is well-known as a vocal critic of Columbia’s outgoing president Alvaro Uribe and his administration, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) welcomes the release of three journalists in Ivory Coast who were arrested last week on charges of stealing confidential documents after they reported on a corruption scandal in the small West African country. On Monday, a judge ordered Theophile Kouame, Stephane Guede and Saint Clavier Oula to pay a symbolic […]

A suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle in front of the Baghdad bureau of Al-Arabiya TV on Monday, killing at least four people and wounding at least sixteen others, media reports said. Three security guards and a female cleaner were reportedly among the dead. The suicide bomber, who was driving a white minivan, managed […]

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in South East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), strongly condemns the brutal attack on journalist Teofil Pancic of the Serbian weekly Vreme. According to information received by SEEMO, on the night of […]