Gambian journalist Abdoulie John has received threats from unnamed callers over the past few weeks, he told IPI in a phone interview today. John is a correspondent for the Associated Press news agency and an editor of online news outlet Jollof News. He told IPI he fears the threats are coming from Gambian security operatives. […]

A Filipino journalist was killed on Saturday, bringing the number of media workers killed in the country to three in just five days. Nestor Bedolido, 50, was shot at close range by two men on a motorcycle in Digos City, Davao del Sur, in the south of the Philippines.  News agencies reported that Bedolido was […]

Television reporter Luis Arturo Mondragon was shot dead on Monday as he left the studios of Canal 19, where he worked, in Santa Clara de Danli, a town outside Tegucigalpa in Honduras, according to news reports. He was killed by two gunmen, a Honduran Security Department spokesperson was quoted as saying. Family members suggested to […]

Two gunmen on a motorcycle shot and killed journalist Joselito Agustin, a reporter and anchorman for the Filipino radio station DZJC Aksyon Radyo, on his way home on Wednesday in Laoag city. Agustin’s killing is the second murder of a journalist in the Philippines within 24 hours. On Monday evening, Desidario Camangyan of Sunshine FM […]