Livia Klingl is a foreign affairs expert at Austrian daily “Kurier.” She returned from Cairo last night, where she was one of dozens of journalists that have been harassed and attacked in the past two days. Klingl spoke with the International Press Institute (IPI) on Friday 4 February and gave this first hand account of […]

Plan in advance Establish pre-arranged contact points with the rest of your team (photographer, camera operator, producer, etc.) if you plan to separate Always carry press identification, but conceal it if it attracts unwarranted attention Bring a cellular phone with emergency numbers pre-set for speed dialling Position yourself upwind if there is a possibility that […]

IPI condemns the violence directed against journalists in the recent demonstrations in Egypt and calls for the release of arrested media personnel. Since Tuesday, during the largest anti-government protests Egypt has seen in several years, over 10 journalists have been beaten by security forces while others were detained. By Friday most Internet service across the […]

A radio journalist was killed yesterday in the Philippines, the first murder of a journalist since Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino became president of the country on 30 June 2010 promising to fight corruption and impunity. According to IPI’s data, a total of 98 journalists have been killed in the Philippines since 2000 as a consequence of […]