“To our followers: The Népszabadság newsroom learned at the same time as the public that the paper was suspended with immediate effect. Our first thought is that it is a coup. We will get back to you soon.” With that short status update on the Facebook page of its web edition (nol.hu), Hungary’s biggest opposition […]

Hungarian journalist Attila Varga was waiting on a sidewalk one day when a car suddenly pulled up beside him. It did not contain a friend. “A person leaned out and shouted, ‘How dare you ban me, you motherfucker!’,” Varga recounted in a recent interview with the International Press Institute (IPI). Varga is one of three journalists […]

Read in English A un mes de que el periódico digital Salvadoreño El Faro publicara un reportaje que desató revuelo en el país e intensificó amenazas contra sus periodistas, el Instituto Internacional de la Prensa (IPI, por sus siglas en inglés), pidió hoy al gobierno de El Salvador que tome medidas eficaces para proteger la […]

Women experience online abuse differently – and to a different degree. The same goes for female journalists.