When I sit down at the office and turn on my computer I am greeted with an inbox full of press releases highlighting government incursions into newsrooms all around the world. As a press freedom intern helping monitor press freedom developments in the Middle East here at the International Press Institute (IPI), I read press […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) was saddened today to learn of the death of Radio Be Oko journalist Elisabeth Blanche Olofio in the Central African Republic, who succumbed to injuries she reportedly sustained in January 2013. According to the Community Radio Association (ARC), Seleka rebels attacked and destroyed Olofio’s home on Jan. 4, 2013 in […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on the Brazilian government to implement measures approved by the country’s Human Rights Secretariat to promote the safety of journalists covering protests currently taking place in various cities across Brazil. At least 19 Brazilian and international journalists were attacked in Brazil between June 12, the day the ongoing […]

Lydia Ngoolo normally covers human interest stories for the Kenya Star. But when the reporter wrote about a house that some neighbours believe was once used by Osama bin Laden and continues to serve as a haven for militants, she began receiving threats by telephone. Ngoolo changed her phone number and went into hiding after […]