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International: Protecting journalists is key to sustainable media Sao Paulo, Brazil: Photojournalists light candles during a vigil marking the death of a video journalist killed while covering a protest in Rio de Janeiro. Credit: Nelson Antoine/Shutterstock Advocates of free speech and media freedom are working hard to ensure the media we consume every day is capable of informing us as well as debating with us, capable of carrying out investigations, and resilient enough to hold officials to account for their actions. Yet the challenges are considerable. Media are doing this work in a rapid...

IFJ 30 April 2021 IFJ at World Press Freedom Day in Namibia Information as a public good is the subject of World Press Freedom Day, held in Windhoek, Namibia, 30 years after the Windhoek Declaration (3 May 1991). It remains a seminal event for the development of a free, independent and pluralistic press. World Press Freedom Day has its origins in the UNESCO conference in Windhoek. Below you will find the programme with the participation of the IFJ and its regions. CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Regional Forums The global conference is connecting with the regional World Press Freedom Day celebrations,...

On May 3, 1991, African journalists issued the Windhoek Declaration, a document setting out principles committed to a free press. Journalists Gwen Lister and Tabani Moyo discuss the challenges facing African media today.

Assaults on press freedom, here and abroad, endanger democracy (Guest Opinion by Roy Gutterman) Updated Apr 30, 2021; Posted Apr 30, 2021 Supporters of President Donald Trump break TV equipment outside the the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. AP Facebook Share Roy S. Gutterman is an associate professor and director of the at the Newhouse School at Syracuse University. In 1991, a group of international journalists and press freedom advocates convened in Windhoek, Namibia, to forge a declaration for press freedom for media, governments and citizens around the world. T...

Gwen Lister on Windhoek Declaration anniversary: 'I'd like to see good journalism triumph' Ahead of World Press Freedom Day on May 3, Namibian journalist Gwen Lister talked to DW about press freedom, disinformation and other challenges facing journalism today. Namibian journalist and Chairperson of the Namibia Media Trust (NMT) Gwen Lister is one of the original signatories of the Windhoek Declaration in 1991. Speaking to DW, she said that in spite of many advances in press freedom over the past three decades, disinformation on social media and a continued lack of government transparency pos...