News and Press Releases

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…

On 30 September, the Zimbabwean police arrested and held for two hours nine journalists covering a public demonstration in Harare. The International…

Public service media companies and international organisations have signed the Brussels Declaration on September 30, 2021, a statement for journalist…

Journalist Abdel Nasser Salama, who was arrested at his home in July 2021 and is being held on unfounded terrorism charges, started a hunger strike on…

The Taliban has closed down Afghanistan’s women’s affairs ministry and replaced it with a controversial ‘virtue and vice ministry’ in a telling and…

Employees of Hong Kong’s public broadcaster Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) have been instructed to support the Hong Kong government in safeguarding…

Hundreds of journalists working in Afghanistan have fled or gone into hiding in recent weeks following the seizure of power by the Taliban. The leader…

Los movimientos migratorios en el continente son un tema recurrente en los medios de comunicación pero mayoritariamente se lo aborda desde un discurso…

Manuel González Reyes fue baleado en la ciudad de Cuernavaca este martes por personas que se trasladaban en motocicleta. Todavía no hay detenidos y se…

Environmental reporting

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has collaborated with the Thomson Foundation on this free online course to help journalists look…

Five media rights and press freedom organisations have called for the repeal of an alarming provision within Article 136 of the Maldivian Evidence…

On September 19, the interim director of the so-called Government Media and Information Centre (GMIC) announced 11 new media regulations for…

Twenty years after the murder of investigative journalist Martin O’Hagan, who was shot dead in Lurgan, Northern Ireland, by the paramilitary Loyalist…

CIA officials under the Trump administration plotted to kidnap and assassinate journalist and Wikileaks founder Julian Assange when he was hiding at…

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…

A journalist was hit in the head by a rubber-coated bullet fired by an Israeli soldier in a village east of Nablus in the West Bank on 22 September.…