New OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic on Thursday released her first regular report to the OSCE Permanent Council, noting that in many OSCE member countries media freedom remains under threat. In opening remarks, Mijatovic highlighted the threats posed by criminal defamation and tight Internet control, as well as the cases of […]

Four Mexican journalists abducted on Monday afternoon in the city of Gómez Palacio remain in the custody of a group of gunmen, according to news reports on Thursday. Gómez Palacio is located in the northern state of Durango, a region wracked by a brutal turf war between the Zetas and Sinaloa drug cartels. The four […]

A suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle in front of the Baghdad bureau of Al-Arabiya TV on Monday, killing at least four people and wounding at least sixteen others, media reports said. Three security guards and a female cleaner were reportedly among the dead. The suicide bomber, who was driving a white minivan, managed […]

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in South East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), strongly condemns the brutal attack on journalist Teofil Pancic of the Serbian weekly Vreme. According to information received by SEEMO, on the night of […]