News and Press Releases

2020 and the Covid-19 pandemic have had a brutal impact on journalism: media closures, layoffs, loss of income and job insecurity have been headline…

Can Dündar, the former editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Cumhuriyet was sentenced to over 27 years in prison on 23 December 2020. The charges…

Global Unions have expressed alarm and strong indignation at Saudi Arabia’s State Prosecutor’s decision to seek the maximum jail sentence for women’s…

Truong Chau Huu Danh, a former state media reporter and a founder of the Facebook news page Bao Sach or ‘Clean Newspaper’, was arrested on December 17…

Rahmatullah Nikzad, a reporter, photographer and chief of the Ghazni Journalists’ Union, was assassinated in the first district of Ghazni province by…

Sok Oudom, the owner of Rihysen Radio Station, was sentenced on 22 December, 2020 by Kampong Chhnang court to 20 months in jail for reporting on a…

Rahmatullah Nikzad, a reporter, photographer and chief of the Ghazni Journalists’ Union, was assassinated in the first district of Ghazni province by…

A group of assailants attacked two Abb Takk television journalists on December 18, allegedly in retaliation for stories exposing local mafia…

China has warned against foreign interference in what it calls an ‘internal affair’ after foreign parties expressed concerns over the detention of…

Chinese journalist and filmmaker Du Bin has been detained by authorities for allegedly “picking quarrels and provoking trouble” on December 16. The…

Ethical media coverage of migrant issues is essential to erase stigmatization, xenophobia and racism from our societies. On the International Day of…

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…

Executive Committee meeting by videoconference on December 16 and 17, 2020.

Le Comité exécutif de la Fédération internationale des journalistes (FIJ), première organisation mondiale de la profession dans le monde représentant…

Four journalists were arrested on 11 December and 12 December while covering protests against the murder of Klodjan Rasha, a 25 years-old Albanian…

S V Pradeep, a Thiruvananthapuram based broadcast journalist, was killed in a hit-and–run road accident in suspicious circumstances on December 14.…