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...

A coalition of global unions, representing nearly 21 million workers worldwide, is launching a campaign today to save print journalism. UNI Global...

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...

IFJ affiliates around the world have taken key actions in support of media workers amid the Covid-19 pandemic.

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

"The impact of the health and economic crisis brought about by Covid-19 will without doubt have terrible consequences on both men and women...

Security officials barred private media journalists from covering an official event held in Chinhoyi city on 12 June that the president Emmerson...

A special aid package to protect journalists wages and support struggling media is to be introduced in North Macedonia thanks to the efforts of the...

The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the Pan–African Organisation of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has launched today a...

The Sudanese authorities crackdown on media, unions and journalists has escalated during the Covid-19 pandemic, with tightening state control over...