Work colleagues concerned by the disappearance of radio journalist José Emilio Galindo Robles found his body yesterday at his Ciudad Guzmán home, according to local media reports. Investigators have since confirmed that a skull fracture was the cause of death in a presumed murder. Galindo Robles, the director of Guadalajara University Radio, specialised in investigating […]

Somali gunmen have released two foreign freelance journalists who were taken hostage in Mogadishu over fifteen months ago. Australian photojournalist Nigel Brennan and Canadian journalist Amanda Lindhout were kidnapped outside Mogadishu by unknown gunmen when they were traveling to research a story on the internally-displaced refugees in Somalia, Lindhout confirmed to Canadian TV. She had […]

24 November 2009 – Two Indian TV channels belonging to the CNN-IBN network were violently attacked by activists of the Shiv Sena political group on Friday, 20 November. In a series of three separate attacks, Shiv Sena activists vandalised the offices of television channels IBN Lokmat and IBN7 in Mumbai and Pune and beat up […]

As many as 12 journalists have been confirmed dead in a massacre of more than 21 people in the Philippines, the country’s National Union of Journalists reported on Monday. The journalists were part of a convoy traveling to file candidacy papers for gubernatorial candidate and local mayor Esmael Mangudadatu in the southern province of Maguindanao, […]