INSI : News

9 June 2020

Safely covering the pandemic

INSI is proud to support a new resource aimed at helping news organisations to cover the pandemic professionally and in a way that minimises risk.

8 June 2020

Journalist killed in Kabul bomb blast targeting TV workers

A journalist and a driver were killed when a private bus carrying employees of an Afghan television station was hit by a roadside bomb in the capital, Kabul, the network's news director and officials have said.

6 June 2020

Attacks on journalists in the US show that words can be dangerous

The US is reeling from the worst violence it has seen for many years. The protests, which began after an unarmed black man, George Floyd, was suffocated to death, are dividing the country and highlighting long-standing injustices and conflicts.

22 May 2020

Mexican journalist killed in Sonora, third to be slain in 2020

Journalist Jorge Armenta has been killed in an "armed attack" in Mexico's northern Sonora state, according to authorities.

13 May 2020

Guatemalan journalist Bryan Guerra shot dead in Chiquimula

Guatemalan authorities should conduct a swift and thorough investigation into the killing of journalist Bryan Guerra, determine if it was related to his journalism, and bring those responsible to justice, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

13 May 2020

Murder of radio anchor caps turbulent day in Philippine media

A Philippine radio broadcaster from the central island of Negros has been shot dead, becoming the third media worker slain in Dumaguete City since 2018 and the 16th nationwide since President Rodrigo Duterte came to office in June 2016.

2 May 2020

Free press vital during coronavirus pandemic

World Press Freedom Day will be celebrated on 3 May worldwide and this year feels more important than ever. One can scarcely underestimate the importance of a free press in a situation such as the one that we now find ourselves in.

30 April 2020

Threatened Brazilian journalist killed by gunmen in Paraguay in dangerous border region

Brazilian journalist Lourenço Veras, known as Léo Veras, editor-in-chief of the website Porã News, was assassinated on the night of Feb. 12 in Pedro Juan Caballero, Paraguay. The city is next to the Brazi’s Ponta Porã.

15 April 2020

Missing journalist found murdered in Mexico's south

A Mexican journalist who disappeared more than a week ago in the southern state of Guerrero was found dead on Saturday, becoming the second journalist to be murdered this year in the country.

8 April 2020

Mexican journalist gunned down in first fatal attack on press of 2020

A Mexican journalist has been shot dead in broad daylight as violent crime in the country – and attacks on the press – continue amid the coronavirus pandemic.