News and Press Releases

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) today secured representation rights for journalists at VICE UK after four months of negotiations with...

The IFJ Gender Council's chair Maria Angeles Samperio was elected deputy chair of the Global Alliance on Media and Gender (GAMAG) on 8th July at...

On 22nd July a Gambian army officer accused ex-president Yahya Jammeh of ordering the 2004 murder of journalist and former head of the Gambia Press...

Pakistan’s private broadcaster Geo News was forced off air and its channel number abruptly changed in many parts of the country during Pakistani Prime...

Mohammad Tayyab and Ali Raza, two reporters of Channel 24 News, were brutally beaten by a group of lawyers in Faisalabad, the second-largest city in...

Two reporters were arrested in Preah Sihanouk province in the south-west of Cambodia after they covered the protest of an ongoing land dispute on...

Precious Owolabi, a reporter for Channels Television, was shot dead on 22 July while covering a protest by members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria...

Israeli military forces attacked Palestinian journalists when they were covering a protest march in the Gaza border. The International Federation of...

Since the outbreak of large scale demonstrations in Hong Kong in June, the IFJ has logged a string of violations against the media. The International...

UPDATED 25.07.2019 A French TV crew was charged with trespassing while covering a protest against Australian coal mining giant Adani’s Carmichael coal...

The Polish weekly Gazeta Polska announced on 17th July plans to distribute “LGBT-free zone” stickers to its readers in its next issue. Together with...

Hundreds of masked assailants dressed in white assaulted residents, protesters, journalists and a lawmaker in Yuen Long, Hong Kong, hours after an...

Journalists in Pakistan are facing financial instability with reports that some have not been paid for over three months, while others have had their...

UMNO’s Lembah Pantai division expelled non-Malay reporters from covering its annual general meeting on Sunday, July 14. The International Federation...

Turkish courts this week handed down several prison sentences against journalists and decided to keep others in detention after adjourning their...

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...