A journalist was shot dead on Thursday in Pakistan, the deadliest country in the world for journalists in 2010, according to IPI’s Death Watch. Wali Khan Babar, 28, a reporter for Geo News television, was gunned down in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi. He was shot five times by a group of unidentified people while […]

The South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), strongly condemns the threat allegedly made by a local businessman against reporter Visar Duriqi, a correspondent for the daily newspaper Infopress in Pristina. According to Duriqi, on […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) will hold its annual World Congress in Taipei, Republic of China (Taiwan), from 24-27 September 2011, the organisation today officially announced. The 2011 World Congress will mark the return of IPI’s annual event to East Asia after 12 years, when the world’s media community convened in Taipei in 1999. Themed “The […]

As a violent political crisis continues to grip Ivory Coast, press freedom in the country is deteriorating, according to media reports. Journalists have been arrested, newspaper publication has been hindered and some foreign channels are not being broadcast. Despite losing to Alassane Ouattara in elections in November, President Laurent Gbagbo has held on to power […]