Russian authorities said today that a journalist gunned down last night in the North Caucasus republic of Kabardino-Balkaria may have been killed due to his work. The Investigative Committee of Russia suggested the link in a statement announcing that the Committee will head the investigation into the slaying of All-Russia State Television and Radio Broadcasting […]

An unidentified gunman killed a Filipino photographer yesterday evening, the third murder of a journalist in the country in a 48-hour period this week. Local media reported that a man entered the General Santos City home of Mario Sy and shot him twice in front of his wife and daughter. Sy, 53, was taken to […]

With at least 119* journalists killed, 2013 was the second deadliest year on the International Press Institute (IPI)’s Death Watch, which started systematically counting work-related journalist deaths in 1997. The worst year was 2012, with 133* killed, 39 alone while covering the Syrian conflict. As IPI noted last month, impunity for attacks on journalists remained […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed alarm at Thursday’s killing of a journalist in the Philippines, the sixth killed in just over a month and the second slain in the country in just a week. According to the Center for Media Freedom and Responsibility (CMFR), Vergel Bico, editor and publisher of the Kalahi newspaper, […]