Amid reports of attacks on journalists covering post-election protests in Russia, a prominent Moscow-based journalist warned this week that President-elect Vladimir Putin will maintain force as a tool to suppress dissent despite a changed political landscape. Galina Sidorova, chair of the Foundation for Investigative Journalism in Russia and vice-chair of the International Press Institute (IPI)’s […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged a Louisiana sheriff to respond with the utmost seriousness following the use, by deputies, of a journalist’s photograph for target practice after he reported on alleged voter fraud by sheriff’s employees. Sheriff Jack Stephens of St. Bernard Parish, southeast of New Orleans, apologised last week after WVUE Fox […]

A Haitian radio journalist who was wounded when his vehicle came under heavy gunfire from unknown assailants died on Monday in a local hospital. Jean Liphète Nelson, 38, was the manager of Radio Boukman, a community radio station he had founded in 2004 in Cité Soleil, an impoverished and historically violent commune located at the […]

Reporters Edith Bouvier and William Daniels have escaped the besieged Syrian city of Homs and are currently in Lebanon, according to AP. During a European summit in Brussels, French President Nicolas Sarkozy confirmed that he had spoken to Bouvier and that she and Daniels had been smuggled into Lebanon. He added that Bouvier would be […]