News and Press Releases

Tehmina Kaoosji is an independent broadcast journalist and an advocate for gender equality and social justice. As part of the #MYMediaMatters campaign...

American journalist Matt Belanger was assaulted and physically attacked by a man who “perceived he was homosexual”. The International Federation of...

IFJ’s North American Region met on May 13, to discuss and coordinate our response to the Covid/financial crisis facing our members and our industry....

The local government has repeatedly harassed Radyo Natin Guimba (RNG) radio station reporters in Guimba for covering their response to Covid-19. The...

The Portuguese Journalists' Union (SJ) has strengthened its call on the government for increased support for the media sector and denounced the fact...

Nine global unions have joined forces for a gender equal new normal in a series of webinars addressing women workers in the context of the Covid-19...

Wan Noor Hayati Wan Alias is an award winning journalist and union activist who writes for a number of publications including the Malaysia Gazette....

Journalists in Mozambique have been trained on how to cover the Covid-19 outbreak safely, thanks to the National Union of Journalists of Mozambique...

A day after publishing an article on a Srinagar gunfight, Fahah Shah, founding editor of The Kashmir Walla was summoned to Srinagar cyber police...

On 18 May, dozens of protesters stormed the premises of MBC broadcaster in Baghdad following its airing of a show critical of the Iraqi militia...

Presidential spokesperson Harry Roque accused CNN Philippines journalist Triciah Terada of misquoting him despite never writing the report containing...

Journalist unions and representative organisations in the Asia Pacific are disturbed by the “cease and desist” order that forced Philippines...

Journalists from non-government owned media outlets were barred from covering Malaysia’s lower-house parliamentary proceedings May 18. The...

The Australian federal government’s communications minister Paul Fletcher requested ABC employees to go without a pay rise for the next six months....

New York Times correspondent Chris Buckley was expelled from China earlier in May, the same day as the United States (US) announced new visa...

Journalists in Malaysia are concerned at increasing controls on press freedom as they advocate for much-needed reforms to protect media workers from...