Alfredo Villatoro, presenter of the morning news program and News Director at the major Honduran radio station, HRN radio, was kidnapped Wednesday morning near his residence at 4:50 a.m., just outside the capital city Tegucigalpa. Villatoro was on his way to the office when he was abducted from his vehicle. A colleague at the radio […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today condemned the physical attack on Skai TV and Radio presenter Konstantinos Bogdanos. The reporter was attacked yesterday in the Athens neighbourhood of Exarchia. He was later taken to the hospital to be treated for head injuries and a […]

At a panel discussion on “Improving the safety of traditional media workers and new media practitioners,” sponsored by the International Press Institute (IPI) in the course of UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day conference in Tunis, Tunisia, panellists and other participants sought to identify effective mechanisms to ensure the safety of journalists worldwide. “Murders and other […]

Almost every day this month, another journalist has been murdered, according to the IPI Death Watch and news reports. Six journalists lost their lives in May, all in countries where those who murder to silence the media are rarely punished. The most recent victim was Philippine journalist Nestor Libaton, a news reporter for the Catholic […]