INSI : News

2 March 2018

Investigative journalist killed: INSI February update

The International News Safety Institute was saddened and shocked at the murder of the Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak.

1 February 2018

INSI January Update

PyeongChang 2018, the FIFA Russia World Cup and calling for a special rapporteur to monitor the ongoing investigation into the murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia were all on the agenda for INSI in January.

22 January 2018

INSI joins call for justice for murdered Maltese journalist

Partners of the Council of Europe’s Platform for the Promotion of Journalism and the Protection of Journalists, are deeply concerned over the lack of progress in the investigation into the murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia.

4 January 2018

2017 was a dangerous year for female journalists

In 2017, violence against female journalists increased and the number of women killed in connection with their journalistic work also increased significantly, according to the International News Safety Institute's Killing the Messenger 2017 report. This is a development that has to stop.

21 December 2017

INSI annual review 2017

We live in difficult and dangerous times for journalists. This year more than 60 of our news media colleagues have been killed doing their work, but for many more 2017 has been a year of tragedy and trauma. At INSI, it has been one in which we have seen the threats to journalists grow and change.

13 December 2017

High number of women among this year’s media casualties

2017 saw an unusually high number of women among the 68 journalists killed doing their jobs this year, according to Killing the Messenger, a biannual analysis of journalist casualties by the International News Safety Institute (INSI).

1 December 2017

Brave journalists tell of online abuse: November update

One of the most powerful - and challenging - sessions from this year's News Xchange in Amsterdam was the conversation hosted and moderated by INSI director Hannah Storm on the topic of cyber bullying and its effects on threatening, sometimes to the point of silencing, journalists' voices.

30 November 2017

Schibsted Sweden 7th new INSI member this year

The International News Safety Institute (INSI) has another new member, our seventh this year.

8 November 2017

News media urge full investigation into murder of Daphne Caruana

Following the brutal murder of Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, several major news organisations, among them INSI members, wrote an open letter to European Commission First Vice-President Frans Timmermans urging a full investigation into Daphne's death.

2 November 2017

We must end impunity for crimes against journalists

Every fourth day, a journalist is killed. In nine cases of ten the guilty goes unpunished. Every attack on a journalist is an attack on our democracy.