The Daily IIJ

The citizen journalists of InsightShare or Rising Voices believe in the best of all possible worlds: a world in which the disenfranchised rise their voices.

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The Spanish blogger Judith Torrea writes about Ciudad Juárez, a Mexican city on the US-border severely affected by drug trafficking and homicides. She was awarded the Reporters Without Borders BOB Award 2011 during the Global Media Conference. An interview about journalistic passion and fear.

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Carceral states like North Korea represent some of the last information vacuums on earth. Activists risk a lot to offer an alternative view to state propaganda. Successfully: Even the quest for freedom in the Arab countries didn’t go unnoticed behind the fences of Kim Country.

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Paru aux éditions Sinaï, le livre « Abdoulaye Issa, Trop tôt à Setto » a été officiellement lancé par son auteur, le jeudi 1er septembre, en présence du parrain de la cérémonie, Robert Dossou, d’anciens collaborateurs de l’illustre disparu et d’un parterre d’invités de marques.

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Did you know that one of the founders of the International Institute for Journalism (IIJ), Axel Springer, founded Europe’s most successful paper, Bild in 1952? With a circulation of more than three million, Bild is the biggest German tabloid newspaper and one of the 230 newspapers and magazines published by the Axel Springer publishing house. [...]

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When the German press agency dpa was set up after World War II, it “started at zero”, as today’s news editor Martin Romanczyk puts it. The organisation lacked everything that is necessary to set up a successful news operation: Money, communications, equipments, papers and office space. Nowadays, dpa is the biggest news agency in Germany [...]

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Six decades of initiating and reporting political scandals, exposing corruption and still going strong: This is the story of Der Spiegel (English: mirror), the German weekly magazine that has risen to become one of Europe’s most successful political magazine and has kept politicians in Berlin on their toes.

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The leak of classified documents and U.S. diplomatic cables in 2010 initiated a debate over the impact of WikiLeaks on mainstream media. One year and many leaked documents later, can we say if WikiLeaks has really changed traditional media outlets? However, the question is: which has really changed in the end?

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Yet another 7 July marked the five years disappearance of Chief Ebrima Manneh who was a reporter with the Daily Observer. The day is always marked by mixed feelings in the history of Gambian media. Time is the blackboard and action the chalk of history. Human beings have the right to act and live as [...]

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MANILA, Philippines – Justice Secretary Leila de Lima has given assurances that suspended Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao governor Zaldy Ampatuan, accused of being a principal in the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan massacre, cannot be freed from detention even if he is accepted as state witness in any case filed over the election fraud that [...]

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