BBC correspondent Matthew Price today said there was an increasingly “desperate situation” at the Rixos hotel in Tripoli, where around three dozen journalists and several other foreigners say that armed men are preventing them from leaving. International reports say the Rixos hotel has now lost electricity in some parts and that those in the hotel […]

There has been a rash of attacks against media organisations in Pakistan’s Sindh province recently. In the last week of July, unknown persons attacked the offices of Geo, Jang, and the News in a number of cities, attacked staff members and damaged equipment. In a related development, copies of Jang and The News were burned […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) condemns the brutal attack of Gnanasundaram Kuhanathan, the editor of the Tamil-language daily newspaper Uthayan in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. According to reports on several Tamil news and human rights websites, the 59-year-old journalist was hospitalized for serious head injuries after the unidentified assailants beat him with iron bars outside his […]

In 1991, CNN took a bold step when it took  cameras to Teferi Ber refugee camp in Ethiopia, near the Somalia border, to film a series on the famine that everyone expected to happen that summer. At the time, Will King, CNN senior international editor, told the Los Angeles Times that he hoped the information […]