News and Press Releases

Google’s offer to pay to license news has been welcomed by journalists’ unions around the world as an important first step, but the pledge of just…

Lawyers for the US government wrangled for days to prevent Julian Assange's extradition proceedings hearing Khaled El-Masri’s evidence. When…

Police detained four journalists in eastern Turkey on 6 October and raided their homes and offices following their reporting on allegations of Turkish…

Pakistani journalist Abid Hussain Abidi, affiliated with local newspaper Jurm-o- Saza, was shot dead in Mandi Bahaudin in the Malikwal district on…

Una coalición de sindicatos mundiales, que representan a casi 21 millones de trabajadores y trabajadoras en todo el mundo, pone en marcha hoy una…

In a joint statement, the Council of Global Unions (CGU) welcomed the adoption by the European Parliament (EP) of the “resolution on the situation in…

“If you criminalise news gathering, you are criminalising journalism. It is a moral duty for journalists to protect sources. Many have gone to jail to…

On 2 September, indigenous journalist Karl Dockstader was arrested and charged with criminal mischief after covering a Caledonia land dispute during…

Global tech giant Facebook is to ban users in Australia from sharing news on its platforms if a proposed regulatory code to make them pay for news…

Members of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) working for Bullivant Media walked out on strike on 25 August to defend quality journalism, oppose…

More than 100 workers employed by the Tayba media group are to lose their jobs by the end of August following a decision of the government-appointed…

After years of resisting demands to pay for news, Google said in a surprise announcement on 25 June it had reached  deals with a number of news…

Russian journalist and photographer David Frenkel was assaulted and seriously injured by a policeman at a polling station in St. Petersburg on 2 July…

Los afiliados de la FIP de todo el mundo han realizado acciones clave en defensa de los trabajadores/as de los medios de comunicación durante la…

As Member States start discussing the proposed EU recovery plan, the International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ/EFJ), along with 92…

“El impacto de la crisis sanitaria y económica del Covid-19 tendrá sin duda consecuencias terribles para los hombres y mujeres periodistas. Pero ya…