January 17, 2019
BY BBC News
Ahmed Hussein-Suale: Ghana journalist shot dead
A Ghanaian undercover journalist has been shot dead as he drove home, after a politician called for retribution against him.
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January 17, 2019
BY RSF
Taliban execute citizen journalist
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.
January 7, 2019
BY Hannah Storm
A message from the Director
Hannah Storm has announced her resignation as Director of the International News Safety Institute (INSI). She will leave the organisation in March.
January 3, 2019
BY INSI
Schibsted Norway joins INSI
The International News Safety Institute (INSI) is delighted to welcome the Norwegian arm of the Schibsted Media Group to the INSI network.
December 22, 2018
BY BBC
Top Somali journalist among Mogadishu bomb victims
One of Somalia's most prominent journalists is among at least a dozen people killed in bomb attacks in the capital Mogadishu, reports say.
December 17, 2018
BY The Local
Italian journalist dies after being shot in Strasbourg Christmas market attack
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.
December 12, 2018
BY Hannah Storm
Without journalism safety, there can be no press freedom
Since I joined the International News Safety Institute (INSI) in 2010, hundreds of journalists have been killed around the world. In that time, thousands of our colleagues have courageously continued their work despite frequent threats against them and those closest to them.
December 11, 2018
BY Express Tribune
Journalist shot dead, another injured in Peshawar
A journalist was gunned down with his colleague sustaining serious injuries after being targeted by unidentified assailants in Peshawar on Monday.
December 3, 2018
BY Aztec Reports
Another journalist found dead one day after presidential inauguration
The body of Mexican news reporter, Jesus Alejandro Márquez Jiménez, was identified on Sunday after being found by the side of the Tepic-Pantanal highway in the state of Nayarit.
November 27, 2018
BY INSI
INSI News In November
We marked International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists in November by remembering colleagues who have been killed this year doing their work.
November 26, 2018
BY CNN
Syrian radio host who satirized Assad and ISIS shot dead
A Syrian radio host who satirized both President Bashar al-Assad and opposition insurgents including ISIS has been shot dead in Syria's rebel-held Idlib province, the Syrian Journalists Association said Saturday.
November 5, 2018
BY Cristina Zahar
Press vows to keep Brazil's Bolsonaro in check
Jair Bolsonaro’s campaign for the Brazilian presidency was notable for its aggressive, right-wing tone, particularly the attacks he made on the media.
November 1, 2018
BY Cilla Benkö
"Those who threaten and murder journalists must be punished"
Today, 2 November, is the International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists.
October 31, 2018
BY International Federation of Journalists
Two journalists killed in separate attacks in less than 24 hours
In less than 24 hours, two journalists have been killed in attacks in Chhattisgargh and Jharkhand, India. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its affiliate, the National Union of Journalists, India (NUJI) and the Indian Journalists Union (IJU) have condemned the murders and demand immediate action from the Indian government to end the culture of impunity and violence against media workers.
October 30, 2018
BY INSI
Reporters murdered amid rising anti-media rhetoric
High profile killings, threats and angry rhetoric against journalists and news outlets made October a particularly dangerous month for members of the media trying to do their jobs around the world.
October 30, 2018
BY BBC News
India journalist and police killed in 'Maoist attack'
A cameraman from India's national broadcaster, Doordarshan, and two policemen have been killed in an alleged attack by Maoist rebels.
October 28, 2018
BY Financial Express
Somali journalist shot dead outside Mogadishu
Armed men shot dead a radio journalist outside Mogadishu on Saturday evening, police and the journalist union confirmed.
October 22, 2018
BY The Guardian
Saudi Arabia admits Khashoggi killed but claims he died in 'fistfight'
Turkish investigators are likely to find out what happened to the body of Jamal Khashoggi before long, a senior official has said, after Saudi Arabia admitted for the first time that the journalist was killed in its Istanbul consulate.
October 16, 2018
BY The News
Journalist Sohail Khan shot dead in Haripur
Unidentified armed assailants gunned down journalist Sohail Khan in Haripur district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
October 11, 2018
BY Deutsche Welle
Mexican journalist shot dead at restaurant
Sergio Martinez Gonzalez, the editor of a local news outlet in the southern Mexican state of Chiapas, was shot dead Wednesday morning, the latest victim in Mexico's wave of journalist murders.
October 8, 2018
BY Time
Bulgarian Television Journalist Viktoria Marinova Was Raped and Killed
The body of Bulgarian journalist Viktoria Marinova was found in a park on Saturday, making her the third journalist to have been murdered in the European Union in a year, the Guardian reports.
September 28, 2018
BY INSI
INSI in Canada: September update
We were thrilled to hold our first News Safety Group in Montreal, which was hosted by INSI member CBC Radio-Canada, and brought together Canadian media to discuss security issues for journalists in North America.
September 28, 2018
BY Manon Globensky
"Journalists are no longer people" says Canadian reporter
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.
September 22, 2018
BY Reuters
Mexican journalist Mario Gomez killed while leaving his home
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.
September 16, 2018
BY Committee to Protect Journalists
Omar Ezzi Mohammad
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.