Security agents in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region shut down a popular radio station in Bosaso on Saturday morning, according to news reports and local journalists. The authorities accused the station of broadcasting programs that threaten Puntland’s security, but didn’t provide any evidence, according to Mohamed Ibrahim of the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ). Horseed […]

Almost every day this month, another journalist has been murdered, according to the IPI Death Watch and news reports. Six journalists lost their lives in May, all in countries where those who murder to silence the media are rarely punished. The most recent victim was Philippine journalist Nestor Libaton, a news reporter for the Catholic […]

These three stories highlight the plight of many journalists around the world on May 3, 2012, World Press Freedom Day. The Story of Marcela Turati ‘The Majority of Mexican Journalists Have Become War Correspondents in their Own Country’ “My city finds itself in a state of panic. There is shooting everywhere. People see bodies in […]

In Somalia, a nation of ever-shifting fortunes, the first few months of 2012 have been particularly deadly for the media. Four journalists have been killed in the war-weary East African state this year – one each month. Only Syria has been more dangerous. Numerous other Somali journalists have been wounded in or narrowly escaped assassination […]