The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed renewed alarm over the state of media freedom in Mexico following the attempted murder* of a radio journalist in Guerrero state and a violent attack on another journalist in Quintana Roo within a period of two days. On Saturday morning, radio host Marcela de Jesús Natalia was shot […]

With a new president in place, journalists in Gambia appear to be facing a brighter future after more than two decades of severe pressure. In December, the small west African country saw the latest major upheaval in its brief but tumultuous political history when Adama Barrow scored a surprise upset in Gambia’s Dec. 1 presidential […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) this week welcomed the Spanish government’s decision to drop fines against a reporter who posted online a photo of police making an arrest, ending the first case against a journalist under a controversial provision of Spain’s notorious 2015 “gag law”*. But IPI criticized the government for waiting until one week […]

Authorities in Peru should investigate all theories into the deaths of two journalists in apparently separate incidents whose remains were found just days apart in recent weeks, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. On Feb. 27, the dismembered body of 55-year-old journalist José Feliciano Yactayo Rodríguez was found in a rural area outside Lima […]