Taliban issues death threat against two Pakistani TV journalists for condemning the shooting of “Malala”
Islamabad: Taliban leadership have ordered its militants to attack the offices of two top Pakistani TV channels Geo News and ARY and two of its anchormen. The Taliban’s message expressed anger at the TV journalists for their open condemnation of attack on 14 years old...
The freedom to say ‘no’?
As journalists and other citizens in the UK await the recommendations of the Leveson inquiry, journalism lecturer Tony Harcup argues that a crucial freedom for journalists is the freedom to say ‘No’ to an unethical instruction. In this edited extract of a chapter in...
International News Safety Institute latest update: August 2012
In its latest update INSI has recorded the deaths of 86 journalists and media staff so far this year, with a further 31 cases under investigation. The update includes the Institute's biannual survey of news media casualties, carried out by the Cardiff School of...
CPJ: Syria must release U.S. journalist believed in state custody
The Committee to Protect Journalists and other international groups concerned with the safety of journalists have expressed acute concern about the fate of US freelance journalist Austin Tice, who is believed to be in government custody. Japanese reporter Mika...
Online commentary by Project Syndicate: Europe’s Wounded Press Freedom
An Online Commentary on the Project Syndicate website by CFOM International Director William Horsley and the Council of Europe’s parliamentary rapporteur on media freedom, Mats Johansson, summarises the evidence that multiple assaults on press freedom are threatening...