An Al Jazeera correspondent has reportedly been wounded in Syria and transferred to Turkey for medical treatment, while a Turkish photojournalist was reportedly shot in the foot. Both journalists were injured while covering clashes in Aleppo, the commercial capital of Syria, which has witnessed brutal fighting in recent days. Al Jazeera cameraman Hakan Bayginer told […]

The National Liberation Army (ELN) in Colombia has claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of Élida Parra Alfonso, who was abducted on 24 July, the newspaper El Tiempo reported. The journalist hosted a program on children’s rights for the Sarare Stereo radio station, and also worked for the company managing the Bicentennial Pipeline in Saravena, the […]

Two journalists were reported missing this week in Latin America: one in Mexico and one in Colombia. Miguel Morales Estrada, who works as a photojournalist for the daily Diario de Poza Rica and as a freelancer for the newspaper Tribuna Papanteca in Papantla in the State of Veracruz, Mexico, was last seen Thursday in Veracruz. […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) congratulates the journalists honoured at the CNN MultiChoice African Journalist 2012 Awards Ceremony, including the many publishers and editors of IPI’s national committee in Nigeria. The 2012 Free Press Africa Award was given to the Nigerian press corps as a whole, whom the judges cited for “their bravery in continuing to report […]