Happy holidays from the International Press Institute (IPI), headquartered in Vienna, Austria, but fighting diligently for press freedom around the world. We all know the importance of press freedom; in fact, many of us have sacrificed greatly in the fight for freedom of expression and a free press. This year alone there have been several […]

To describe 2011 as a turbulent year for Syria would be an understatement. As other regimes in the Arab world have fallen, President Bashar al-Assad has ruthlessly clung to power. At every step, media attempts to shed light on developments have been thwarted. The government has cracked down on local journalists and denied access to […]

Media professionals have come under attack while covering clashes between protesters and security forces near Tahrir Square in Cairo – in an echo of the violence against the media that occurred during the mass demonstrations that ousted former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak from power earlier this year, according to news reports. Reporters covering the latest […]

A Somali television journalist was shot dead in Mogadishu on Sunday by a man wearing the military uniform of the Transitional National Government (TNG). Reuters and other news outlets said that an unknown assailant armed with an AK-47 opened fire on Abdisalan Sheikh Hassan, known to colleagues as “Xiis”, shooting him several times in the […]