The International Press Institute (IPI)’s North American Committee yesterday decried as “horrific and unacceptable” the treatment of journalists covering protests against the fatal shooting of an unarmed man by police in Missouri. Numerous domestic and foreign journalists have reported that law enforcement officers in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson have threatened and arrested journalists […]

Lithuanian journalist Gintaras Visockas is no stranger to covering controversial topics. A long-time journalist and author, Visockas covered the Lithuanian Defence Ministry and NATO operations for almost five years for the newspaper Vastieciu Laikrastis. “During this time, I had conducted hundreds of interviews with Lithuanian and foreign generals,” Visockas told IPI in a recent email […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) is saddened to learn that media worker Ali Abu Afash was killed in Gaza on Wednesday, according to reports. Afash, who worked for the Gaza Centre for Media Freedom as a translator and journalist, had accompanied an IPI delegation during its visit to Gaza in 2013. Daoud Kuttab, an IPI […]

The ink is still fresh on Elides Rojas July 5 column in which he promised that the editorial line at El Universal, one of Venezuela’s oldest publications, would not change as a result of the sale of the newspaper last July. El Universal became the third leading private media company to be sold in Venezuela […]