UPDATE 8.04.11: Four journalists have been detained by forces loyal to Colonel Muammar Qaddafi this week, according to multiple news reports yesterday. According to The Atlantic and other reports, Atlantic reporter Clare Morgana Gillis was detained near the rebel-held city of Brega along with James Foley of the Global Post online, Spanish photographer Manu Brabo […]

UPDATE 4 April 2011: Reuters reporters Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Khaled al-Hariri have been freed in Syria, the news agency reported. In another update, in Libya, one of four Al-Jazeera correspondents who are in detention, Lotfi Al Masoudi, has been freed, the network reported on its website on 3 April. Al Masoudi was originally detained with his colleagues […]

Two Mexican journalists have been killed in Monterrey in the northern state of Nuevo León in a murder that appears to be tied to organized crime. José Luis “La Gata” Cerda Meléndez, 33, host of the “El Club” program on national TV channel Televisa, and Luis Emanuel Ruíz Carrillo, 20, a reporter for daily “La […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today firmly condemned an attack on Azerbaijani journalist Seymur Haziyev, who was reportedly kidnapped early Saturday morning outside of Baku by masked men who beat him and told him to “be smart.” Haziyev, of the opposition Azadliq (Freedom) Newspaper, said that six assailants speaking Russian among themselves put a sack […]