2005-2014

Death threats have been made against Nicaraguan investigative reporter Luis Galeano in the lead-up to the publication of a series of articles on official corruption. Galeano and his colleague José Adán Silva, reporters with the Managua-based daily El Nuevo Diario, had been investigating allegations of embezzlement within Nicaragua's Supreme Electoral Council, El Nuevo Diario reported. On Saturday...

Iván Hernández Carrillo, a Cuban journalist imprisoned since March 2003, was released on parole Saturday and permitted to remain in the country, bringing to 19 the number of reporters and editors freed after an agreement between the President Raúl Castro and the Catholic Church. The Committee to Protect Journalists called on Cuban authorities today to lift all conditions on Hernández Carrillo's...

The Committee to Protect Journalists joined the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) in calling for an investigation into the drive-by shooting death of Abdost Rind, a 27-year-old part-time journalist in the Turbat area of Balochistan province in Pakistan's southwest on February 18. According to the PFUJ and local media reports, Rind—a reporter with the Daily Eagle, an Urdu-language...

The Sunday Tribune, the Irish quality newspaper partly owned by Independent Newspapers, has closed shop, less than a month after a receiver was appointed. Jim Luby, the receiver, wrote to the 43 staff on Tuesday telling them they would be made redundant at the end of the month. It brings to an end a chequered 31-year history for a paper that attempted to inject new life into a newspaper sector...

The Singapore government has announced, as part of the nation's annual budget, that the radio and TV licence has been abolished effective January 1, 2011, according to the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union. The licences were first introduced in 1963. Premises with TV or radio sets, owners of vehicles with radios and dealers selling broadcast apparatus, paid for these licences. The fees collected...

The International Press Institute (IPI) has been awarded $2.7 million by Google Inc, to sponsor the ‘IPI News Innovation Contest’, a project aimed at advancing the future of digital news by funding new ways to inform communities in Europe, Middle East and Africa. The IPI News Innovation Contest aims to encourage breakthrough ideas with the potential to create lasting impact. Grants will be awarded...

Against a backdrop of historic political change for the region that has brought the country to the brink of its own revolution, The International Partnership for Yemen has released findings from its joint mission that expose the critical situation facing the media. The Partnership, a coalition of press freedom and human rights organisations including ARTICLE 19: Global Campaign for Free Expression...

There were physical attacks on seven journalists in two separate incidents during Tuesday’s municipal and district elections as well as the attacks on two other journalists during February 18’s general election, according to Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). “The violence against journalists during these two elections reached alarming proportions and seems to have...

Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has called on the Philippines government to move quickly to protect journalists from increasing death threats against those reporting on corruption and environmental abuses, a month after the murder of Radio Mindanao Network (RMN) dwAR commentator Gerardo Ortega. It urged President Benigno Aquino III to keep his promise to fight...

The police say journalist Le Hoang Hung’s wife, Tran Thuy Lieu, came to them on February 20 and confessed to causing his death by spraying him with a chemical as he slept and setting him on fire, according to Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). Lieu told the police she deliberately misled them by making it look as though an intruder was responsible. Her motives were...