With a vote of nine to five*, the Advisory Board of Germany’s public broadcaster Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) on Friday blocked the contract extension of the TV station’s current editor-in-chief Nikolaus Brender, raising serious concerns of political interference at the public broadcaster. Markus Schächter, ZDF’s director-general, had requested that Brender’s contract be extended by the […]

Work colleagues concerned by the disappearance of radio journalist José Emilio Galindo Robles found his body yesterday at his Ciudad Guzmán home, according to local media reports. Investigators have since confirmed that a skull fracture was the cause of death in a presumed murder. Galindo Robles, the director of Guadalajara University Radio, specialised in investigating […]

Somali gunmen have released two foreign freelance journalists who were taken hostage in Mogadishu over fifteen months ago. Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan and Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout were kidnapped outside Mogadishu by unknown gunmen when they were traveling to research a story on the internally-displaced refugees in Somalia, Lindhout confirmed to Canadian TV. She had […]

Journalists marched and radio stations fell silent in Ecuador yesterday in protest against a government-backed communications bill the media has described as a “gag law,” according to local reports. The draft Ley Orgánica de Comunicación (Organic Law on Communication), delivered to the National Assembly’s Secretary-General on Saturday and scheduled for debate in the Assembly on 10 December, […]