A car bomb in the Somali capital Mogadishu has killed a broadcast journalist who was the widow of another reporter killed three years earlier in a suicide attack on a café in the same city. Hindiya…
Two journalists and an accountant for a Pakistani news agency were killed in an attack by unidentified gunmen in the northwestern city of Quetta Aug. 28, local news outlets including Pakistan’s Dawn.com reported. The attack…
ZETA’s offices are easy to miss. Since Jesús Blancornelas founded the Mexican magazine with Francisco Ortiz Franco and political columnist Hector Felix Miranda, [caption id="attachment_2881" align="alignright" width="214"] Zeta magazine's Adela Navarro, Courtesy of the Missouri…
Two journalists working for state-owned television Rossiya TV were hit by mortar fire June 17 near the eastern Ukrainian city of Luhansk, Russian media reported. They were filming Ukrainian refugees fleeing the area. Anton Voloshin,…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eH8CC-VyPmc&list=UUCIsbjh-gexWhBr4LGMj-Ow&feature=share In this week's free press watch, a Swedish-British journalist is targeted and killed in Afghanistan, an Iraqi suicide bomber kills 45, including 2 journalists on assignment, and 2 more journalists in Syria died while…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiwzQJak83E&list=UUCIsbjh-gexWhBr4LGMj-Ow Convergence students produced a Free Press Watch centered on East Asia. The video covers the following events: - Vietnam jails former state-media journalist for blog posts. - Authorities censor coverage of Kunming station attack.…
A Brazilian journalist and television director was shot and killed Feb. 27 in the city of Teixeira de Freitas, about 550 miles (900 km) north of Rio de Janeiro. Geolino Lopes Xavier, 44, an anchor…
On Feb. 24 seven Russians were sentenced to two to four years for participating in protests in Moscow against President Vladimir Putin in 2012. More than 600 people protesting the sentences were detained the same…
The owner of a Brazilian news weekly known for exposing corruption in local government was killed near his home outside of Rio De Janeiro on Feb. 13. Pedro Palma, the owner and editor of the…
A Color Coded Conflict in Thailand Thai police arrested a leader of the anti-government protest movement on Monday, their first such move since demonstrations that have paralyzed the country’s government began in November. The demonstrators…
