The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the killing of television journalist in Guatemala who was shot dead yesterday by two unidentified attackers on a motorcycle while walking with his teenage grandson. Víctor Hugo Valdez Cardona, the head of a cultural programme on the local cable network TL-COM, was killed while walking in a street […]

The year 2015 is on course to be the deadliest year for the media on record, according to the International Press Institute’s (IPI) Death Watch, which has systematically kept track of journalists’ killings around the world since 1997. Sixty-one journalists have been killed for reasons related to their work or have died in accidents while […]

Read this article in English El Instituto Internacional de la Prensa (IPI, por sus siglas en inglés) está consternado por la muerte del periodista colombiano Luis Peralta Cuéllar y pide a las autoridades que esclarezcan cuanto antes los hechos que rodearon su muerte. El suceso tuvo lugar el sábado, 14 de febrero de 2014, cuando […]

A Brazilian journalist who reportedly had complained to police about threats was shot dead Sunday evening outside his home just west of the country’s capital Brasilia. João Miranda do Carmo was killed when four gunmen who had called him to the gate outside his home in Santo Antônio do Descoberto, in Brazil’s central Goiás state, […]