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Tens of thousands of people, including journalists and media rights activists, gathered in a Rome square Saturday to defend press freedom, accusing Premier Silvio Berlusconi of trying to silence critical voices.
Hundreds of opponents of President Hugo Chavez marched in support of press freedom in Venezuela on Wednesday, two years after his government refused to renew the concession of an opposition-aligned television station.
Press freedom declined worldwide in 2008 as even once-unfettered nations such as Israel and Italy imposed new limits on media coverage, according to a report by media analysts.
Freedom of the press has deteriorated in the Americas, with Mexico among the most dangerous countries in the region to be a journalist, the Inter American Press Association said Monday.
The Nicaraguan government's aggressive actions against journalists are threatening press freedoms in the country, the president of the Inter American Press Association warned.
An Associated Press photographer who was jailed by U.S. forces in Iraq and four other journalists from Uganda, Afghanistan and Cuba were honored Tuesday by a global press rights group for their work in war zones and confronting authoritarian regimes.
Press freedom fell dramatically in Georgia and Niger this year as new armed conflicts flared up, while China continued to jail dissidents even as it hosted the world's press for the Olympics, a media rights group said Wednesday.
Senior editors and journalists from more than a dozen leading Bangladesh newspapers and television stations have demanded an end to the country's state of emergency and called for greater press freedom.
An editor's career at a popular magazine in southern China appeared to be in limbo Wednesday after he wrote an opinion article that challenged the government on the prickly issues of censorship and Tibet.
Worldwide, the environment for journalists grew more hostile last year, extending a six-year downturn, researchers reported Tuesday.
The Malaysian government plans to give opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim's political party a permit to start its own newspaper as part of reforms to allow more press freedom, according to news reports Sunday.
Attacks on journalists in the Philippines are undermining press freedom and putting the country's democracy "under siege," the country's Supreme Court chief justice warned Wednesday.
Autocratic governments in the Middle East combined periodic crackdowns with cosmetic media reforms last year to maintain their control over the press, an international media watchdog said Monday.
Journalists and newspapers in Hong Kong are increasingly practicing self-censorship to prevent upsetting mainland China, one of the territory's most outspoken pro-democracy activists said Wednesday.
At least 13 employees of media organizations were killed and two disappeared in the past six months in the Western Hemisphere, according to preliminary reports presented Sunday by members of a press association that promotes free expression in the Americas.
A U.S.-based press freedom group said Wednesday that President Hugo Chavez is using the courts and legal reforms to weaken journalists critical of his leftist government.
Press freedoms in Asia, Africa and the former Soviet Union lost ground in 2005, while four of the world's most restrictive countries showed signs of progress, an advocacy group for spreading democracy says.
Law abiding and lawless[Manila, Philippines]A conference among lawyers and journalists from several Asian countries including the Philippines is concluding in Cebu.
Backlash against White House Thuggery has begunApparently, the White House effort to undermine conservative critics and attack the freedom of the press is generating a backlash on Capitol Hill - and the backlash is not coming just from Republicans, moderate Democrats are concerned as well.
Murder of another Filipino journalist prompts UNESCO condemnation[Manila, Philippines] 1 July 2009 – The head of the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom today deplored the recent murder of a radio commentator in the Philippines, the fourth such killing of a journalist in the Asian country this year.
Press freedom violations continue post-coupAmid a continuing climate of media harassment after the coup, a correspondent for Radio América was killed by an unidentified gunman on 3 July in northern Honduras, report Comité por la Libre Expresión (C-Libre), the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters Wihout …
The Associated Press: Journalists briefly detained by troops in Honduras"At least 10 soldiers, most with rifles drawn, arrived at the hotel where journalists from The Associated Press and the [state sponsored] Venezuela-based television network Telesur were staying and unplugged their editing equipment in an apparent attempt to stop their coverage …
High-level Corruption In RP Abounds - Freedom House [Manila, Philippines--] High-level corruption in the Philippines abound while cronyism and influence peddling are rife in business and government, according to a new country report of the Freedom House.
Photos of baby's birth and death lead to porn charges for Zambian newspaper editorTHE photographs were shocking. People flinched when they saw them. The editors of The Post, an independent daily in Zambia, decided such gruesome pictures were simply not publishable.
Photojournalists assaulted by security forces in West Bengal Local police beat three photographers in two separate incidents on June 18, 2009, in India's West Bengal state.
Venezuela to Revoke Radio Licenses in Latest Communication Shutdown A total of 86 AM radio stations and 154 FM stations have failed to turn in required documents, which will lead to the "recovery of all those concessions by the state," said Diosdado Cabello, who heads telecommunications.
Seven journalists re-arrested in the GambiaWe issued the following statement in response to reports that the Gambia's High Court jailed six journalists today who were charged with sedition and criminal defamation. One of the seven journalists, a mother of a young child, was re-arrested but then freed on bail...
Palestinian Authority sabotages report by Al Jazeera crewReporters Without Borders condemns the erasure of Al Jazeera video footage by Palestinian Authority security officials yesterday on the outskirts of the West Bank city of Hebron. The erased footage dealt with a suspect's death in detention.
Philippine broadcast journalist shot deadNew York, June 9, 2009--Police in Mindoro Occidental province should immediately investigate the shooting murder of Philippine radio commentator Crispin Perez for possible links to his reporting, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today....
Filipino journalist in Army's 'Order of Battle'I am Carlos H. Conde, a journalist based in Manila.
YouTube blocked in ChinaThe Chinese government should disclose the legal basis for the sudden, widespread inaccessibility of the video-sharing Web site YouTube, or it should restore access to the site immediately, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Getting Away With Journalists' Murders 2009CPJ began compiling the index in 2008 to raise awareness about a disturbing pattern of impunity in countries across the world.
Uganda: Activists Call for Press Freedom Kampala — HUMAN rights activists and journalists have called for improved press freedom ahead of the 2011 general elections.
RP Right of Reply bills: Malice aforethoughtAlmost to a man and woman, the journalists present in a press conference called by the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP) last February 24 to rally opposition to the Right of Reply bills in Congress were asking why "Nene" Pimentel did it.
The Right to Be Heard and the Duty to Reply"[Kudos] to Atty. Alan Paguia, who once more displays the logical rigor and legal wit that has gotten him into so much trouble with the [Philippine] Judicial Putschists like Hilario Davide and Artemio Panganiban."
A Chill on 'The Guardian'Among all the postmortems that will inevitably follow the dramatic implosion of the global financial system, there will doubtless be one on how it was covered in the press.
2nd Filipino radio presenter gunned down in less than a monthReporters Without Borders is outraged by yesterday's murder of Leo Mila, a Radyo Natin presenter in San Roque, in the [Philippines'] central province of Northern Samar. Mila was gunned down at around 7 p.m. by an unidentified person outside the station's studios in San Roque.
Philippines 3rd deadliest place for journalists in 2008Overview
2008 press freedom. The year in figures.In 2008 : - 60 journalists were killed - 1 media assistant was killed - 673 journalists were arrested - 929 were physically attacked or threatened - 353 media outlets were censored - 29 journalists were kidnapped
Another Gruesome Journalist's SlayBarely a month after Reporters Without Border lowered RP's freedom index from 128th to 142nd this year, another journalist, has been reportedly slained in Gingoong City, Misamis Oriental.
Burma blogger jailed for 20 yearsA Burmese blogger has been sentenced to 20 years in jail for posting a cartoon of the military leader Than Shwe. Nay Phone Latt, 28, was sentenced by a court in Rangoon's Insein prison, said his mother, Aye Than.
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