María Teresa Ronderos is the president of the Colombian Foundation for Freedom of the Press (FLIP) and a teacher at the Foundation for the Ibero American New Journalism (FNPI). She is also a consulting editor for Semana, a prestigious economic and political magazine, which reported on the illegal wire- tapping of politicians and journalists between […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed alarm at the death of Salvadoran Channel 33 television cameraman Alfredo Hurtado, who was gunned down on a bus Tuesday evening in suburban San Salvador on his way to work. Authorities said two unknown young men boarded the bus, approached Hurtado and opened fire, leaving a dozen bullet […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned arson threats against the Liberian Daily Observer that were made on 2 April. The publisher and the marketing manager of the Monrovia-based Daily Observer each recently received threatening phone calls from an unknown caller who said that Publisher and Managing Director Kenneth Y. Best’s house would be burnt […]

Two highly-respected Western war photojournalists were among at least five people killed on Wednesday in the rebel-held city of Misrata when they were hit by a rocket-propelled grenade, international news reports said. At least two other journalists were wounded in the attack. Tim Hetherington, 41, was a British war photographer and filmmaker whose documentary “Restrepo,” […]