Berlin, October 9, 2026—Austrian authorities must urgently explain why Ukrainian investigative journalist Mykhailo Tkach and his colleague Yaroslav Bondarenko were violently detained in Vienna on Thur...

Introduction Journalist Nicolas Baudoux didn’t pay anything to find out where his colleague at L’Echo newspaper in Belgium had been. The locations came free from a data broker based in the U.S. The br...

The Committee to Protect Journalists joined 10 other civil society organizations in filing an amicus brief in the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday calling for the safeguarding of encry...

Istanbul, May 20, 2026—Turkish authorities must release journalist Yelis Ayaz without delay and stop punishing journalists for doing their jobs, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. Ay...

They are leading and building organizations at the forefront of supporting journalists and press freedom.

Explaining the sudden presence of two grim-looking bodyguards in a way that wouldn’t scare her children was never going to be easy for Federica Angeli, a reporter for la Repubblica. So when Angeli ret...

A desperate situation has become catastrophic. If we do not act now, there will be no one left to tell anyone’s story

New York, June 5, 2025—More than 120 global leaders of news and press freedom organizations called on world leaders, governments, and international institutions on Thursday to act immediately to ensur...

Orbán’s ruling party delays vote on legislation allowing government to ban organisations with foreign funding

New York, June 4, 2025–The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is pleased to announce the appointment of José Zamora as the new Regional Director for the Americas, the region which now includes CPJ...

New York, May 8, 2025—As the third anniversary of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh’s murder nears, a documentary offering new evidence about her killing highlights the failure of Amer...

Executive summary The first 100 days of the Trump administration have been marked by a flurry of executive actions that have created a chilling effect and have the potential to curtail media freedoms....

New York, April 17, 2025—A court in the southern city of Almaty sentenced Temirlan Yensebek, the founder of the Instagram-based satirical outlet Qaznews24, on Friday, April 11, to five years of restri...

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joins partners of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFFR) in welcoming the recent ruling by a court in Athens which overwhelmingly dismissed the…

Google says AI Overviews increase clicks. Cold, hard logic disagrees, and so does our research.

Serbian translation available below   ‘PEN International urges the Serbian authorities to end their alarming onslaught on peaceful expression, including against writers, journalists, academics and ...

La loi en vigueur dans le pays interdit d’exploiter des fuites de données bancaires, sans aucune exception d’intérêt public. Les autorités suisses s’appuient pourtant sur la presse pour s’intéresser a...

У апошнія тыдні беларускія сілавікі ўзмацнілі ціск на журналістаў унутры краіны і родных прадстаўнікоў медыя, якія выціснутыя за мяжу.

The amendments will enable the government to ban public LGBTQ+ gatherings like Pride parades.

Abstract . Changing levels of public trust in the news are of deep concern to both researchers and practitioners. We use data from 2015 to 2023 in 46 count

ENI sues a representative of ReCommon over an interview given to Italian public media. The CASE Italia Coalition: 'We stand in strong solidarity with Antonio Tricarico as ENI, once again, demonstrates...

DMG Media says it has made a "significant investment" in Prorata, a generative AI platform that plans to share revenue with publishers.

By Eduardo Suárez and Gretel Kahn 🗞️ 3 top news stories 1. How Netanyahu used the German newspaper Bild for his own purposes.

Mr Lai’s health is ‘deteriorating’ in prison, politicians and campaigners have warned, as they called for his release.

The Indian government didn’t renew work permits for correspondents from France and Australia. Colleagues see this decision as part of an alarming trend.

By Matthew Leake and Eduardo Suárez 🗞️ 3 top news stories 1. An Italian investigative team receives death threats.