The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism is pleased to announce the creation of a new award named the Said-Asfari Fellowship jointly sponsored by the Asfari Foundation and the Said Foundation. This gives a unique opportunity for journalists from Lebanon, Palestine and Syria (resident in the Levant region or Egypt) to benefit from a […]

Lebanese journalist and former television anchor for the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC) May Chidiac, one of 60 “IPI World Press Freedom Heroes” honoured by the International Press Institute, spoke to Laura Pannasch at the IPI World Congress 2010 in Vienna. Even an assassination attempt in September 2005, in which she lost part of her left leg and left […]

Lebanese journalist and former anchorwoman May Chidiac was today declared an IPI World Press Freedom Hero, in recognition of her continued and fearless engagement for the cause of press freedom and independent reporting. Known for her criticism of Syria’s political sway over Lebanon – an issue not many people dared talk about in Lebanon – […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) is to participate in a panel discussion on Freedom of Speech and Self-Censorship at a two-day regional conference in Beirut on censorship, organised by the Lebanon-based SKeyes free media group. The organisation was founded following the assassination of An-Nahar journalist Samir Kassir in June 2005. Founded in 2009, SKeyes covers press freedom […]