The open call for artists & filmmakers closed on 1 July 2008. We received applications from artists & filmmakers from 30 countries, and we thank all organisations and persons who have assisted us in distributing our open call around the world. We...
Richard Butler, a British journalist working with American network CBS, has been freed after being held hostage for two months. Read more here
On 11 April, seven leading Slovakian dailies - SME, Pravda, Hospodarske, Noviny, Novy Cas, Plus 1 Den and Uj Szo published issues with nothing on the front page apart from a black-bordered editorial criticising the country’s new media law. A...
Should publications only run ads that match their principles, asks Peter Wilby Many readers and some journalists believe editors should apply the same principles to advertising as they do to editorial copy. If an ad is violently at variance with...
A High Court judge today rejected an attempt by the UK Defence Secretary to ‘gag’ coroners. Lawyers for Des Browne had challenged critical comments made by Andrew Walker, an Oxfordshire coroner, at the inquest of Private Jason Smith in November...
Two community radio presenters and indigenous activists were shot and killed in southern Oaxaca on Monday. Felicitas Martínez Sánchez and Teresa Bautista Merino were returning from publicising their radio station, La Voz que Rompe el Silencio (The...
A vocal critic of a constitutional reform that will allow President Paul Biya to stand for another term in 2011 was arrested on Wednesday. According to his wife, the singer Lapiro de Mbanga has been accused of instigating riots in Mbanga in...
An amnesty panel in Baghdad has cleared AP photographer Bilal Hussein of charges of conspiring with Iraqi insurgents. Hussein has been held by US forces since April 2006. AP chief Tom Curley welcomed the decision, and called on the US to release...
Motor racing supremo Max Mosley has failed in his attempt to stop the News of the World from publishing an extract from a video of him with several prostitutes on its website. The newspaper claims that Mosley, son of British fascist leader Oswald,...
Gerry Adams and Sinn Féin are trying to stifle debate in Belfast's media, writes Anthony McIntyre Gerry Adams of Sinn Féin is the current Westminster MP for West Belfast. For decades he rightly campaigned against censorship policies crafted by...
Journalists investigating terrorism may find their research of interest to more than their readers. Index reports on a threat to press freedom The head of MI5 once described journalist Shiv Malik's work as "essential reading". The police clearly...
Controversial short film Fitna has been removed from video-hosting site LiveLeak after threats were made against staff. Meanwhile, the Iranian government has summoned the Dutch ambassador in order to register protest against the film. Dutch Foreign...