News and Press Releases

Stress, anxiety, depression, sleep and eating disorders or burnout are just some of the mental health problems that many journalists covering the…

Four men broke into a printing company associated with the Hong Kong edition of The Epoch Times on April 12 and vandalized equipment. The…

Jimmy Lai, founder of the media group Next Digital, was sentenced to 14 months in prison on April 16 for organising unauthorized assemblies in late…

A Turkish court has released journalist Ahmet Altan after serving more than four years in prison on charges of involvement in the failed 2016 coup…

The Chinese Embassy in Sweden has reportedly threatened a Swedish freelance journalist, Jojje Olsson, over an article Chinese authorities deemed…

Freelance journalist Vladislav Yesypenko has told a court he was tortured and forced to confess after he was arrested in March by Federal Security…

Police today stormed the headquarters of the national Tunisian news agency TAP in a bid to quell protests by journalists over the appointment of a new…

Belarussian authorities have banned pan-European news media Euronews from broadcasting in the country, alleging it violated legislation by running…

Giorgos Karaivaz, a veteran Greek television journalist who specialised in reporting on crime was shot dead on April 9 near his home in Athens. The…

IFJ in the news

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…

Betty Mutekhele Barasa, a senior video editor and television producer working for the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC), was assaulted and shot…

The Yemeni Journalists Syndicate has documented 24 violations of press freedom in the country between 1 January and 31 March 2021, ranging from…

Investigative journalist Morgan Large discovered that her car had been sabotaged, with two bolts removed from a wheel on Monday 29 March. The…

IFJ in the news

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…

Employees at Artı TV and online media Artı Gerçek face losing their jobs as a result of their parent company's decision to terminate its contract with…

On April 1, the founder of media group Next Digital, Jimmy Lai, was convicted of organising and taking part in an unauthorised assembly in 2019. The…