The Committee to Protect Journalists says it is alarmed by the suspension of two independent newspapers in Gabon and the increasingly hostile environment for private media in the country. The Committee to Protect Journalists says the suspensions are...
Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge has been posthumously awarded the World Press Freedom Prize. At conference in the Gulf state, Qatar, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization emphasized the need for journalist...
A young Afghan journalist, convicted of blasphemy, has had his death sentence overturned. But the appeals court ordered the reporter to spend 20 years in jail for distributing an Internet article criticizing the Prophet Mohammed's views on women. VO...
A second journalist is dead of gunshot wounds fired under suspicious circumstances in Russia's volatile Caucasus region this week. VOA Moscow correspondent Peter Fedynsky reports the death of the first journalist sparked an anti-government demonstra...
Two western journalists reported missing in the Somali capital Mogadishu are believed to have been kidnapped by militiamen. As VOA Correspondent Alisha Ryu reports from our East Africa Bureau in Nairobi, the journalists, along with a local interpret...
After recent attacks on newspaper offices in Senegal and ongoing detentions of journalists in Gambia, international attention is yet again being focused on the state of journalism in West Africa. Journalists in Gambia describe their daily fear of re...
Journalists in Senegal and free press advocates have criticized President Abdoulaye Wade over his administration's treatment of the press. Brent Latham reports from our West Africa bureau in Dakar, the criticism comes in response to events surroundi...
By Chris Simkins Washington 07 April 2008 Amemorial has been unveiled in Washingtonto honor journalists from around the world who have died or were killed while covering the news. The memorial is part of a new museum dedicated to journalism called t...
By Derek Kilner Nairobi 19 March 2008 A military and police operation targeting a militia in western Kenya continues. As Derek Kilner reports from Nairobi, journalists are complaining that they are still being barred from the areas affected by the op...
By Greg Flakus Des Moines 10 January 2008 The first events of the U.S. presidential election season, the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, drew coverage from all the major news media, but many people followed the events on internet sites f...