News and Press Releases

Governments and employers need to do more to protect jobs, wages and living standards amid the Covid-19 pandemic according to a new survey published…

Journalists in Ukraine are demanding action by government after a catastrophic fall in revenue has led to wage cuts, job losses and staff being forced…

A group of 37 national media unions from South Asia as well as global media advocacy and freedom of expression organisations today called for an end…

Some European countries have decided to limit and control journalists' questions during government press conferences during the COVID-19 pandemic. The…

Jonathan Jalon, a reporter of eMedia Production Network Inc., was asked by security personnel in the Zamboanga City Hall when he was about to cover a…

Four men accused of the murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan in 2002 were rearrested on April 4, a day after a court…

UPDATE 27.04.2020 Iraq’s Communications and Media Commission (CMC) has fined and banned Reuters news agency from operating following a report on the…

A Kathmandu Press article highlighting an alleged scam involving high level government employee and the sons of the defence minister and the prime…

The Australian government’s proposed $130 billion “JobKeeper” package falls short of supporting freelancers and non-permanent media workers. The…

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…

Serbian Prime Minister, Ana Brnabic, withdrew a planned decree that would have limited the publishing of information related to COVID-19 just to…

Sajid Hussain, a Pakistani journalist granted political asylum in Sweden in 2017, is reported as missing. The International Federation of Journalists…

The Supreme Court of India ordered media to only refer to, publish and broadcast the official version of the information on the health crisis, citing…

Ko Nay Myo Lin, the editor-in-chief of Voice of Myanmar (VOM), was arrested on March 30 for breaching the Counter Terrorism Law after publishing an…

The Iranian State Board for Fighting Corona Disease (SBFCD) passed a nationwide ban on all print publications on 30 March. The International…