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...
INSI advises Sheffield University students on journalism safety
The event, organised by the Department of Journalism Studies at Sheffield University took place at ICOSS on July 31st. Rodney Pinder, Former Reuters Senior Correspondent and Director of the International News Safety Institute (INSI) and William Horsley Former BBC...
4 July 2012: Fifty-seven states back planned UN Human Rights Council Resolution on Journalists’ Safety
Joint Statement on the Safety of Journalists in support of a forthcoming Austrian government Resolution on Safety of Journalists, which is expected to be presented to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva in September 2012. Journalists play a special role in society...