News and Press Releases

Many IFJ affiliates are taking action to mark World Press Freedom Day on 3 May. Here is a non exhaustive list of their initiatives.

The spotlight was turned on increasing attacks on media freedom across Europe as the Council of Europe Platform to Promote the Protection of…

The Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ) has been awarded the 2022 UNESCO Guillermo Cano Prize. The Award Ceremony will take place on 2 May in…

Under the project Technical assistance to public service media in the Western Balkans implemented by a consortium led by the IFJ  and funded by the…

On Wednesday 27 April 2022, the Platform to Promote Protection of Journalism and Safety of Journalists will launch its report “Defending Press Freedom…

Nineteen organisations defending press freedom and journalists, including the IFJ, have urged on 22 April UK Home Secretary Priti Patel to reject the…

The repression of journalists and censorship are intensifying in Russia. The International and European Federations of Journalists (IFJ-EFJ) condemn…

This yearʼs World Book and Copyright Day – celebrated on 23 April – comes at a crucial point in the conflict between authors and the internet giants…

Every week the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is compiling a list of the top news articles from across the world in which it is…

Karine Barzegar is a journalist and member of the National Bureau of the National Union of Journalists (SNJ) in France. Since mid-August 2021, she,…

Solidarity centers just launched by the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU), with the support of the International and European…

Journalist Thanasis Koukakis was allegedly spied on by a new surveillance software named Predator for at least three months, a report revealed. The…

The Dorogomilovsky District Court in Moscow sentenced on 12 April four journalists from student magazine, DOXA, to two years of forced labour.…

Novaya Gazeta's editor-in-chief and Nobel Prize winner Dmitry Muratov was attacked in a train on Thursday 7 April 2022. Two people doused him with red…

Every week the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is compiling a list of the top news articles from across the world in which it is…