PARIS, France, May 27 [Category: Media] -- Reporters Without Borders issued the following news: * * * Mauritania: RSF welcomes President Ghazouani's commitments and calls for the country to champion the right to information on the diplomatic stage On 27 May 2025, during a visit to the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott, Thibaut Bruttin, Director General of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), met with Mohamed Ould Cheikh El Ghazouani, President of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania. The RSF delegatio more PR

LONDON, England, May 29 -- PEN International issued the following news: * * * Mexico: PEN International Condemns Judicial Harassment of Hernan GOmez Bruera and Penguin Random House "The use of the judicial system to intimidate and silence journalists represents one of the most alarming forms of contemporary censorship. At PEN International, we stand in full solidarity with Hernan Gomez Bruera and Penguin Random House Mexico, and we urge the Mexican authorities to guarantee their right to inv more PR

VIENNA, Austria, May 28 -- The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe posted the following news release: * * * OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media concludes first official visit to Bosnia and Herzegovina SARAJEVO, 28 May 2025 -- The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Jan Braathu, concluded today his first official visit to in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) where he held three-days of bilateral meetings. Representative Braathu met with the Speaker of the BiH Hou more PR

BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 28 [Category: Media] -- The International Federation of Journalists posted the following news release: * * * Pakistan: Journalist killed by militia in Balochistan Journalist Abdul Latif Baloch was shot and killed by a state-backed militia on May 24 inside his home in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate, the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), strongly condemn his killing and call on  more PR

LONDON, England, May 28 [Category: BizMedia] -- The National Union of Journalists posted the following news: * * * Pakistan: Journalist killed in front of family Journalist Abdul Latif Baloch has been shot and killed at his home in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province. Latif Baloch was shot four times in his home in the Mashkay Tehsil area of Awaran district in front of his wife and children after four armed men broke into his house. Baloch human rights groups have alleged that th more PR

LONDON, England, May 28 [Category: BizMedia] -- The National Union of Journalists posted the following news: * * * Palestine: Death toll of journalists rises after Hassan Majdi Abu Warda is killed Another tragic milestone has been reached in the number of journalists and media workers killed in Gaza following the death of Hassan Majdi Abu Warda. The director of Barq Gaza News Agency was killed on the morning of 25 May in an Israeli airstrike that hit his home in the Jabalia al-Nazla neighbo more PR

NEW YORK, May 29 -- ProPublica, an independent nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism, issued the following news release: * * * ProPublica Joins Lenfest Institute AI Collaborative and Fellowship Program ProPublica announced Wednesday it's joining a cross-industry effort to explore how artificial intelligence technologies can responsibly contribute to the work of investigative journalism. As part of the program, ProPublica will hire an engineer for the two-year fellowship. T more PR

PARIS, France, May 28 [Category: Media] -- Reporters Without Borders issued the following news: * * * RSF asks International Criminal Court to allow Gazan journalists to participate in war crime investigation Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has submitted multiple formal requests to the International Criminal Court (ICC) asking that the Palestinian journalists who are victims of Israeli war crimes in Gaza be allowed to participate as such in international judicial proceedings. After filing fo more PR

LONDON, England, May 29 -- PEN International issued the following news: * * * Turkiye: Release and end judicial harassment of Furkan Karabay 'PEN International said it time and again: journalism is not a crime. Furkan Karabay is behind bars and on trial in Turkiye merely for carrying out his job. As we command the power of young writers in generating change, we stand with Karabay in his pursuit for the truth and urge an end to his relentless targeting. Turkiye's mounting onslaught on press f more PR

WASHINGTON, May 27 -- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland, issued the following news release: * * * Van Hollen, Shaheen Send Letters to Secretaries Rubio and Noem Urging Protection and Release of USAGM Journalists at Risk Today, U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on State Department & USAID Management, International Operations & Bilateral International Development, and Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committe more PR