A delegation of the International Press Institute has completed a weeklong research mission to Israel, the West Bank and Gaza that focused on the current status of conflict coverage by local media. The team included: IPI World Press Freedom Hero Daoud Kuttab, who runs Ammannet.net in Jordan; IPI Senior Press Freedom Adviser Naomi Hunt; and […]

An estimated 76 journalists* are currently imprisoned in Turkey. They are victims of anti-terrorism legislation and of a criminal justice system that does not differentiate between terrorists and journalists who write about terrorism. As a result, fear among the media has spread and journalists practise self-censorship to avoid being thrown in jail — all of […]

A delegation from the International Press Institute (IPI) and the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) this week examined Mexican government measures to ensure greater safety of journalists, along with strategies adopted by media and journalists to continue reporting from highly dangerous parts of the country. The delegation met with a wide variety […]

According to two pro-government newspapers in Turkey, Star and Yeni Akit, as well as Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan himself, those who denounce the state of press freedom in Turkey are “terrorists.” That is the term that they were using last week to denounce the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and the Paris-based […]