The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on the United Kingdom’s attorney general to reject efforts to force the Guardian newspaper to disclose sources of its reports about the alleged victims of hacking carried out by the News of the World. The Guardian reported yesterday that Attorney General Dominic Grieve’s office said he would rule […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the shooting of a photojournalist in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The news photographer, from Britain’s Press Association, was shot in the leg Tuesday night, the second day of sectarian clashes between Protestants and Catholics. The Press Association’s Deputy Ireland Editor Steven McCafferty confirmed to IPI that the photographer was […]

Britain’s ITV News was on Wednesday banned from a police press conference after running a report criticising the police’s handling of an investigation into the murder of Joanna Yeates, a landscape architect whose body was found on the outskirts of Bristol last month, the Guardian newspaper reported. Avon & Somerset police have complained to Britain’s […]

The United Kingdom’s Guardian newspaper was on Monday slapped with a gag order preventing it from reporting on a question a parliamentarian is due to ask in the House of Commons later this week, the newspaper reported. The gag order was lifted late on Tuesday morning. The question relates to an injunction brought against the […]