The changing perception of journalists from positive to negative by the public may have grown exponentially in the past few years, thanks mostly to the Trump presidency south of the border, but it’s been going on for longer than that.
A Mexican journalist was murdered in the southern state of Chiapas on Friday, authorities and his employer said, the latest attack against the press in one of the world’s most dangerous countries for media workers.
Radio engineer Omar Ezzi Mohammad was killed in a Saudi-led coalition airstrike that hit the Ansar Allah-controlled Al-Maraweah Radio Broadcasting Center, in al-Maraweah district in Hodeida Governorate. The attack killed two of the station’s security guards--Ali Aish Mohammad Youssef and Jamaie Abdullah Musib--as well as a farmer who was in the vicinity of the building at the time of the attack, according to the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate and Yemeni TV station Belqees.
The Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, today condemned the killing of journalist Ahmed al-Hamzi in Al-Bayda Governorate, in central Yemen on 30 August, and called for improved safety measures for journalists working in conflict situations.
The 15th Annual General Meeting of the International News Safety Institute (INSI) will take place this year in Edinburgh on 13 November.
Two journalists were among 20 people killed in Kabul in twin bomb attacks on a wrestling club on Wednesday, with the second blast targeting media and emergency services at the scene of the initial explosion.
The election taking place on 9 September in Sweden has brought with it heated debate and intensified the public conversations taking place between citizens, politicians and journalists - both on and offline.
Another journalist has been killed in Quintana Roo, the third media professional to be murdered in the Mexican state in the past two months. Motives behind his death are still unclear, but journalists and media organizations are calling on authorities to explore all possible lines of investigation.
A ZNBC Cameraman has died after falling off a moving vehicle while filming a funeral procession in Kabwe, the organisation has announced.
Brazilian radio journalist Marlon de Carvalho Araújo, 37, was murdered on Aug. 16 inside his home in Riachão de Jacuípe, Bahia, in the northeastern region of Brazil. Police suspect that the crime was motivated by his "aggressive way of providing the news," reported site G1.