The sound of silence in Turkey From protests to corruption, Turkish media is finding fewer subjects can be safely covered. A strange thing happened less than a week after militants from the Islamic State in the Levant, or ISIL, seized...
Mexican radio host killed on air A Mexican radio show host and activist known for his opposition to a dam project was shot and killed during a live broadcast in the western city of Mazatlan. Atilano Roman Tirado was on air speaking to the...
Mexican journalist abducted before peace rally A Mexican journalist was abducted and threatened on Oct. 5 for planning to cover a peace rally in the east-central state of Puebla. Miguel Ortega, a reporter for the RexRadio news outlet in Teziutlan, told a...
Cuba tells journalist to stop work or face prison Cuban police arrested and detained a journalist for an opposition newspaper and told him to halt work or face four years in prison, a press freedom group said. Bernardo Arévalo, a journalist from the...
Uzbekistan said to use passport data to track journalists Uzbekistan is using information from its new biometric passport system to track journalists crossing its borders, a local news website says. Uzbek journalist and human rights activist Dmitry Tikhonov was...
Project Exile: Ukrainian flees amidst fighting "The fighters play with the city like it is a game of Battleship." After the home of one of their colleagues was shot-up with machine-gun fire, Ukrainian journalists Olena Kolgusheva and Yaroslav Kolgushev...
Vice News thrives with young audience, controversy From North Korea to the Islamic State, Vice's international reporting attracts both audience and critics. Six days after Brooklyn-based Vice News released a five-part documentary on the group known as the...
Colombian journalist flees after gunshots fired at house A Colombian investigative reporter fled her home in the northern city of Barrancas in La Guajira state after gunshots were fired at the house in the early morning hours of Sept. 3. Amalfi Rosales, who works...
Azeri journalist, human rights activist beaten unconscious A veteran freelance reporter and human rights activist was rushed to a hospital after several unidentified assailants beat him severely on Aug. 21 at his office in Nakhchivan, Azerbaijan. Ilgar Nasibov, who...