A delegation of six press freedom organisations concluded a three-day mission to Croatia by calling on the country’s political leaders to guarantee the independence of the public broadcaster HRT as well as of the national electronic media regulator. Members of the delegation said the next Croatian government should act swiftly to reform the current law […]

At least 83* journalists around the world died as a direct result of their job in 2016, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today, a significant decline in comparison to record-breaking counts over the past five years. Nearly half of journalist deaths – 36 – occurred while covering armed conflict, mostly in Iraq, Syria and Yemen. […]

An American journalist and his Afghan translator were killed in southern Afghanistan yesterday afternoon when the convoy in which they were travelling came under fire by Taliban insurgents. U.S. media outlet National Public Radio (NPR) and the Afghan Military confirmed the deaths of journalist David Gilkey and his Afghan translator Zabihullah Tamanna. Gilkey was placed […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed concern over the deaths of two Kurdish journalists – one murdered in Duhok City in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, the other killed while covering fighting between Kurdish Peshmerga forces and Islamic State group militants near Mosul – within a period of just two days. Mustafa Said, a cameraman for […]