The IFJ Blog

Do journalists deserve legal protection beyond that granted to the general population? For many of us, the instinctive answer is “no”. It is a matter…

Stand outside the offices where the Spanish national newspaper El País is published on any Wednesday morning in the past few months, and you might…

It was the time of armed conflict in Kosovo, and journalists were doing their job. It was August 21, 1998, when the Radio Pristina media crew went on…

Until two years ago, the news media in Afghanistan thrived. There were 160 television stations, 311 radio stations, 90 print newspapers and 26 news…

The promise to keep confidential the source of sensitive information is a journalists’ defining undertaking. That solemn assurance is what empowers…