War, grief and hope: the stories behind the World Press Photo award-winners
Images from Gaza, Ukraine, Madagascar and the US border chosen by global jury from more than 60,000 entries • World Press Photo winners 2024 –...
Category : Journalist safety
‘The city is a jail’: Haitian journalists get word out about gang violence
Correspondents in Port-au-Prince face danger as they play a vital role in chronicling city’s state of siege Each day, Makenson Rémy wakes in the hush...
French journalist arrested in Ethiopia accused of ‘conspiracy to create chaos’
Antoine Galindo is accused of conspiring with rebels, but press freedom groups say no evidence has been found and call for his immediate release Ethiopian...
Kidnappers free two of three journalists taken in Mexico, group says
Silvia Arce and Alberto Sánchez, who were kidnapped on Wednesday, freed unharmed Two of three journalists recently kidnapped in southern Mexico have been freed unharmed,...
Photographer shot dead in fifth journalist killing in Mexico in 2023
Body of Ismael Villagómez found in a car as the Committee to Protect Journalists calls for the killing to be investigated A photographer for a...
Philippines radio journalist shot dead during live broadcast
Killer of Juan Jumalon, 57, pretended to be a listener to enter home studio in Misamis Occidental province A radio anchor in the southern Philippines...
Eastern Libya orders journalists out of flood-hit Derna after protests
Media crackdown follows reports that police officers had detained and questioned Libyan reporters Libya’s eastern government has ordered journalists to leave Derna after angry protests...
Outrage in Guatemala as crusading journalist given six-year prison term
José Rubén Zamora, 66, convicted and sentenced on money-laundering charges press freedom groups say were trumped up A veteran journalist and founder of one of...
Lesotho orders indefinite curfew after radio journalist is shot dead
Murder of Ralikonelo ‘Leqhashasha’ Joki prompts crackdown in southern African nation amid warnings of threat to media freedom Lesotho has imposed an indefinite nationwide curfew...
More journalists killed in Latin America and Caribbean than Ukraine in 2022
Committee to Protect Journalist reports region accounted for almost half of the 67 deaths worldwide More journalists were killed in Latin America and the Caribbean...
