Journalists are increasingly the target of insults or threats from individuals or groups online, which can have physical impacts and should no longer be seen as separate from the offline world.
Broadcast journalist Edgar Joel Aguilar was shot and killed in a barbershop in La Entrada, Copán in western Honduras on Aug. 31, 2019.
Somali journalists on Wednesday mourned the death of a fellow media practitioner who was killed during a fierce fighting between Somalia National Army (SNA) and al-Shabab militants in the country’s southern region.
The head of a Mexican news website was found stabbed to death in the center of the country, authorities said Saturday, the 10th such killing this year.
A longtime reporter is one of the victims identified in a fatal plane crash in New Orleans East.
Today we are launching the News Organisations Safety Self-Assessment, a new resource that will help news outlets to review and improve their current safety practices and protocols.
A Guerrero journalist who was also worked as a local official was murdered Friday in the tourist destination of Zihuatanejo, Guerrero.
An investigation has been launched into the death of a reporter in the Mexican state of Veracruz after he became the third journalist to be murdered in a week.
The body of a Guerrero journalist was found in the trunk of a car on Tuesday night in Morelos, bringing the number of reporters who have lost their lives in Mexico this year to seven.
A 23-year-old trainee journalist with Nigerian Television station Channels TV was killed on Monday after he was hit by a stray bullet.
A young citizen journalist was among at least 17 civilians killed in air raids on Syria's rebel-held Idlib region on Sunday, rescue workers and a monitor said, as he filmed the bombardment of the battered enclave.
A car bomb went off on Friday at a hotel in Somalia’s port city of Kismayu where local elders and lawmakers had been discussing an upcoming regional election and was followed by gunfire, police said, adding that the death toll could be high.
Seven people, among them five journalists from Azam Media Group, were on Monday killed in a road accident at Shelui area in Tanzania.
A radio host from the southern Philippine island of Mindanao was shot dead late on Wednesday, according to an organisation of journalists, becoming the latest victim in a wave of killings in the country.
Afghan police say a radio journalist has been killed in the eastern Paktia province.
Pakistani authorities should swiftly investigate the killing of journalist Muhammad Bilal Khan in Islamabad to determine the motive and hold the perpetrators to account, the Committee to Protect Journalists said.
The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned the killing of Syrian photojournalist Amjad Hassan Bakir and urged all the parties to the ongoing Syrian conflict to guarantee the safety of civilians, including journalists.
The director of a news site in Maricá, in the Metropolitan Region of Rio de Janeiro, was killed on June 18. Romário da Silva Barros, 31, was inside his car when he was shot three times, according to G1.
Colombian journalist José Libardo Montenegro, of the community radio station Samaniego Estéreo, was killed on the night of June 11 in the municipality of Samaniego, in the department of Nariño, in the southern part of the country.
A reporter was shot dead in the southern state of Tabasco, her newspaper said Wednesday, the latest in a string of journalist killings in one of the world’s most lethal countries for the profession. Another reporter was kidnapped by a pair of armed men in the nearby state of Veracruz.
Media organisations in Haiti demanded police protection on Tuesday after the killing of a radio journalist who reported on corruption allegations against President Jovenel Moise's administration.
Authorities in Rio de Janeiro must make every effort to find and prosecute those responsible for the killing of journalist Robson Giorno, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
Obed Nangbatna, a reporter and cameraman for the Chadian national TV broadcaster, Télé Tchad, was fatally wounded on 25 May when the military vehicle he was travelling in ran over a mine. The four soldiers travelling in the same vehicle were also killed.
A Mexican journalist enrolled in a federal protection programme has been shot dead, the fifth reporter to be killed this year in one of the most dangerous countries for the press.
A journalist who founded a community radio station in an indigenous region in southern Mexico was shot dead, the fourth reporter murdered in the country this year, officials said Friday.
In Sweden, we have a long tradition of freedom of expression and freedom of the press, but it can never be taken for granted.
Police in Northern Ireland have arrested a 57-year-old woman in connection with the murder of journalist Lyra McKee.
After almost nine years at the International News Safety Institute, director Hannah Storm is moving on. She reflects on the extraordinary changes the media industry has been through over the past decade and the impact they’ve had on the safety of journalists.
The body of Sinaloa sports reporter Omar Iván Camacho was found under a bridge on Sunday evening in the municipality of Salvador Alvarado. He had been beaten and tortured.
After almost nine years at the International News Safety Institute I am moving on. But before I go, I wanted to reflect on the extraordinary changes our industry has been through over the past decade and the impact they’ve had on the safety of our colleagues.
Press groups are condemning the weekend slaying of a Honduran television journalist.
A Mexican journalist who often covered crime and drug gangs in northern Sonora state has died after being shot at point-blank range in his home near the US border, local authorities said.
Police say a local TV journalist was shot and killed in eastern Afghanistan, less than a week after a journalist in the southern Helmand province was wounded by a sticky bomb attached to his car.
February marked a major change at INSI as we announced our new director - Elena Cosentino. She replaces Hannah Storm who is leaving INSI in March.
One journalist was murdered and another wounded Saturday in Sonora.
INSI is delighted to announce that Elena Cosentino is to be our new director.
As Tropical Storm Pabuk lashes coastal villages in southern Thailand, INSI has some advice for journalists covering natural disasters.
Jesus Eugenio Ramos Rodriguez was at breakfast Saturday morning when he became the second journalist murdered in Mexico this year.
The importance of free media for democracy can hardly be exaggerated. Still, we can see a development across the world where the very cornerstones of liberal democracy are being challenged in a way they haven't been for a very long time.
A cameraman from Abu Dhabi TV has been killed in a bomb attack in Yemen.
Two Afghan journalists were killed on Tuesday night when gunmen entered a radio station and opened fire, authorities said.
The number of media workers killed for doing their jobs rose to 73 last year, with countries not traditionally regarded as hostile environments among the most dangerous places for journalists, according to INSI’s 2018 Killing the Messenger report.
A journalist who denounced receiving threats was found dead in Baja California Sur after having been reported as disappeared earlier in the day.
Photographer and video journalist Mohamed Ben Khalifa was killed on Saturday by a stray shell south of Tripoli while on the job.
A Ghanaian undercover journalist has been shot dead as he drove home, after a politician called for retribution against him.
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns Afghan citizen-journalist Javid Noori’s summary execution by Taliban fighters at a roadblock in the western province of Farah on 5 January.
Hannah Storm has announced her resignation as Director of the International News Safety Institute (INSI). She will leave the organisation in March.
The International News Safety Institute (INSI) is delighted to welcome the Norwegian arm of the Schibsted Media Group to the INSI network.
One of Somalia's most prominent journalists is among at least a dozen people killed in bomb attacks in the capital Mogadishu, reports say.
Italian reporter Antonio Megalizzi and his colleague Barto Pedro Orent-Niedzielski have died of their injuries, bringing the number of people killed in the attack to five.