News and Press Releases

The National Writers Union (NWU) has joined forces with the subscription-based online publication Defector to agree a set of shared principles for…

The charges against journalist Hopewell Chin’ono exposed the increasing harassment of media workers by the Zimbabwean government during the Covid-19…

Pakistani authorities suspended satellite transmission of television channel News24HD from October 19 after it allegedly aired an opposition party…

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…

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

Une coalition de syndicats mondiaux représentant près de 21 millions de travailleurs dans le monde entier lance aujourd’hui une campagne destinée à…

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…

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…

Partout dans le monde, les affiliés de la FIJ ont pris des mesures clés pour soutenir les travailleurs des médias dans le cadre de la pandémie de…

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

"L'impact de la crise sanitaire et économique de la Covid-19 aura certainement des conséquences terribles sur les hommes et les femmes journalistes,…