December 11, 2017
BY Reuters
Car bomb kills journalist in Somali capital
A Somali television journalist was killed in a car bombing in the capital Mogadishu on Monday, an editor for the TV station and local authorities said.
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December 5, 2017
BY International Press Institute
Hussain Nazari, Afghanistan
Hussain Nazari, a cameraman for the Rah-e-Farda TV station, was killed on Nov. 17, 2017 while covering a political gathering in Kabul when a suicide attacker detonated an explosive.
December 1, 2017
BY INSI
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.
November 30, 2017
BY INSI
Schibsted Sweden 7th new INSI member this year
The International News Safety Institute (INSI) has another new member, our seventh this year.
November 23, 2017
BY Al Jazeera
Outrage after Indian journalist Sudip Bhowmik shot dead
The killing of an investigative journalist in India's northeastern state of Tripura on Tuesday has sparked outrage, with concerns about the safety of media persons reporting from remote areas.
November 19, 2017
BY IFEX
Nigerian journalist Ikechukwu Onubogu killed by gunmen
In the third of such a tragic incident in Nigeria since the beginning of 2017, unknown gunmen shot and killed a journalist working with the Anambra Broadcasting Service (ABS).
November 8, 2017
BY INSI
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.
November 7, 2017
BY BBC
Afghan television channel Shamshad TV back on air after attack
An Afghan television station has returned to air just hours after an attack by militants left at least one staff member dead.
November 2, 2017
BY Cilla Benkö
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.
November 2, 2017
BY INSI
Barzani: Murder of journalist Arkan Sharif example of ‘chauvinist culture’ in Iraq
President Barzani on Wednesday condemned the murder of Arkan Sharif in southern Kirkuk and held Iraqi and Iranian-backed Shia Hashd al-Shaabi forces responsible for his death.
October 31, 2017
BY INSI
Journalists covering refugee crisis suffer 'moral injury': October update
This month we launched our report The Emotional Toll on Journalists Covering the Refugee Crisis with a panel at London’s Frontline Club and a Facebook Live discussion.
October 29, 2017
BY AFP
Shelling kills Syria pro-opposition journalist: Reports
A Syrian journalist working for pro-opposition television was killed by regime shelling in Damascus province on Sunday, his network and an NGO reported.
October 25, 2017
BY The New Indian Express
Radio journalist shot dead in Philippines, 178th slain after democracy restored
Gunmen have shot and killed a radio journalist in what authorities say is the latest politically motivated killing in Philippines -- one of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists.
October 24, 2017
BY TeleSur
Asesinan a un camarógrafo en Honduras
Con la muerte de Carlos Oveniel Lara Domínguez suman 73 los asesinatos de comunicadores sociales en Honduras desde 2003.
October 23, 2017
BY INSI
Sweden's TV4 joins INSI
The International News Safety Institute (INSI) is pleased to extend its reach in Sweden by welcoming TV4 as our newest member. Based in Stockholm, TV4 is a Swedish television network that started broadcasting in 1990 and has fast become one of the largest television channels in the country.
October 23, 2017
BY INSI
Advisory: Covering the Kenyan election re-run
Kenya’s Supreme Court annulled the presidential elections held in August because of irregularities and has scheduled a new vote for 26 October. The opposition has threatened to boycott but with ballot papers arriving, the poll looks set to go ahead on Thursday.
October 18, 2017
BY UNESCO
Director-General urges investigation into killing of journalist Efigenia Vásquez Astudillo in Colombia
The Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, today denounced the killing of radio journalist Efigenia Vásquez Astudillo on 8 October in Cauca, in the southwest of Colombia.
October 17, 2017
BY The Messenger
1 journalist among dead in Mogadishu bombing, 5 others wounded
The National Union of Somali Journalists is mourning the loss of one of their own in the recent truck bombing at the busy KM5 junction in Mogadishu, while a handful of other journalists were injured.
October 16, 2017
BY INSI
"Everyone has a dream of healthy children, nice friends"
Alice Petrén, migration correspondent for Swedish Radio, explains how meeting one refugee family from Afghanistan affected her in particular.
October 16, 2017
BY The Guardian
Malta car bomb kills Panama Papers journalist
The journalist who led the Panama Papers investigation into corruption in Malta was killed on Monday in a car bomb near her home.
October 16, 2017
BY CPJ
Two Kurdish reporters killed by car bombings
Kurdish journalists Dilshan Ibash and Hawker Faisal Mohammed died from injuries sustained during October 12 suicide car bomb attacks that occurred in the eastern Syrian village of Abu Fas, where the two reporters were covering civilian displacement, according to their employer, Hawar News Agency, and the Syrian Journalists Association.
October 13, 2017
BY Voice of America
Pakistani Taliban Kill Journalist They Accuse of Spying
The Pakistani Taliban says it has killed a local journalist in the country's volatile northwest.
October 9, 2017
BY INSI
Bonnier News becomes INSI member
The International News Safety Institute (INSI) is delighted to announce that the Swedish media group Bonnier News has become our newest member.
October 6, 2017
BY The Guardian
Mexican photojournalist found dead after abduction by armed men
A Mexican photographer who was abducted at gunpoint from his home has been found dead, the seventh journalist to be killed this year in one of the world’s most dangerous countries for media workers.
October 3, 2017
BY INSI
September update
INSI members tuned into a webinar hosted by our board member Salim Amin on covering the re-run of the disputed Kenyan presidential elections.