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 […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) joins the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) in condemning the continued harassment and censorship of Somali radio stations by the Islamist insurgent group Al-Shabaab. The militant group has reportedly imposed severe restrictions over local station Radio Jowhar, which is located in the middle Shabelle region. Jowhar is a former […]

A Turkish court yesterday sentenced the trigger-man in the 2007 murder of International Press Institute (IPI) World Press Freedom Hero Hrant Dink to almost 23 years in prison. A juvenile court in Istanbul imposed nearly the maximum sentence on ultranationalist Ogün Samast – who was 17 at the time of Dink’s killing – after convicting […]

The body of a Mexican journalist who disappeared Sunday from the Gulf coast state of Veracruz was found dead yesterday. Yolanda Ordaz de la Cruz, a police beat reporter for daily newspaper Notiver, was found with her throat slit behind the headquarters of another newspaper, Imagen. According to the International Press Institute (IPI)’s Death Watch, […]