The potent reaction from both Chinese netizens and mainstream media in response to Sunday's deadly train crash in Wenzhou has shown how the state's propaganda machine is being increasingly challenged. The majority of Chinese media (including...
Ahmed Omed Khpulwak, a stringer working for the BBC in Afghanistan, has been killed during a Taliban raid on a TV station in Uruzgan province, southern Afghanistan. It is unclear whether Khpulwak, 25, was killed by Taliban or Nato forces responding...
Guinea's state-controlled media regulatory agency this week imposed a "temporary" ban on media coverage of the 19 July attack on the private residence of President Alpha Condé, silencing private radio and television debate programmes in which...
Kyrgyzstan's Central Elections Committee (CEC) has decided to bar web-based news media from participating in the campaign ahead of the 30th October presidential election. Eleven news sites have been denied accreditation to inform voters on...
The Guardian has revealed that the News of the World hacked Sara Payne's phone, which Rebekah Brooks had given her as a gift. Payne had previously been told, accurately, that her name did not appear in Glenn Mulcaire's notes, but her personal...
The controversial 'A Serbian Film' has been banned from being screened at the RioFan film festival by the event's main sponsor, Brazilian national bank Caixa Econômica Federal. A statement on the festival's website says organisers were given no...
The Turkish-Armenian editor’s assassin has been imprisoned, but questions about wider plot remain. Kaya Genç reports
The decapitated body of Yolanda Ordaz, a reporter for regional paper Notiver, has been found in the Mexican city of Veracruz two days after she went missing. Ordaz had reportedly been investigating the 20th June murder of her colleague, columnist...
Olga Birukova examines the online activism that is keeping pressure on Lukashenko
Reporters Without Borders has revealed several journalists covering Malawi's recent protests have been beaten and detained, while the government has banned radio stations from covering the demonstrations. The protests were in place to express...
