NEW YORK -- The Newseum announced Friday that it will continue with plans to honor two Hamas-linked Palestinian journalists killed during Israeli airs...

May 3rd marks World Press Freedom Day. While we pause to honor those journalists who have been killed or imprisoned, it is important to realize the growing role media play in global politics and the changes that are redefining what it means to be a journalist.

KUWAIT CITY (AP) — An international press freedom group is urging Kuwait to abandon proposals to tighten media laws that could bring fines of nearly...

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — Myanmar journalists just getting used to their new era of freedom howled when the government announced plans for a media law ...

One year after famed war correspondent Marie Colvin was killed in Syria, the journalism community is marking the anniversary of her death with a day f...

SAO PAULO — A record number of journalists were imprisoned worldwide in 2012 in a "deteriorating environment for press freedom," a leading media...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Rights groups on Wednesday called for the Somali government to release a journalist arrested by police for interviewing a ...

NEW YORK (AP) — The Committee to Protect Journalists said in a report Tuesday that a record-number 232 journalists are imprisoned worldwide and that...

The Committee to Protect Journalists launched a digital campaign on Thursday to bring justice to a number of press murders that remain unsolved. In...

The Leveson Report's recommendation of legislation to back a new press regulator in Britain has been met with a largely frosty reception in media circ...

The setting at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel on Tuesday represented the height of refinement, but Alan Rusbridger, editor in chief of The Guardian, remind...

* Report condemns anti-press tone at highest level of gov't * Criticises widespread use of pre-trial detention * Gov't s...

MEXICO CITY — Mexico's special prosecutor for crimes against journalists says 67 journalists have been killed and 14 have disappeared in the cou...

* Journalists strike over spate of violent attacks * Islamists hold north, south still lacks viable govt * Military inte...

The BBC has today warned of an 'unprecedented global threat to impartial and independent news' and called on relevant authorities worldwide to protect...

Journalists put their lives on the line every day to bring us news from across the globe. Today is a day in which we celebrate the indispensable role played by journalists in exposing abuses of power and putting themselves in harm's way.