Journalists in Hong Kong are voicing concern over the deteriorating state of press freedom in the special administrative region, lamenting growing mainland influence through ownership of traditional media outlets, an increase in self-censorship and attacks on journalists. While various independent online publications have been founded in the past few years to counter these concerns, digital-only […]

Marking the anniversary of the murder of prominent investigative journalist Pavel Sheremet in a car bombing in Ukraine’s capital, the International Press Institute (IPI) today joined international groups in urging the country to carry out a thorough, independent, and effective investigation of the crime. Sheremet, a Belarus-born journalist who had been working in Ukraine for […]

A Johannesburg court today granted South African journalists’ request for an order to stop a campaign of intimidation by activists from a group seeking expropriation of white-owned land who last week picketed the home of an editor and published a list of journalists to target. The South African National Editor’s Forum (SANEF) on Tuesday asked […]

“What I want the world to remember is to give some sort of recognition to the bravery and courage of those journalists who go to remote parts of Afghanistan to find the truth and report it to the public,” Najib Sharifi, director of the Afghan Journalists Safety Committee (AJSC), said as he accepted the IPI-IMS Free […]