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They were beaten, kicked, and hit with bottles: in 2024, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) documented 89 attacks on media professionals and media organizations, as revealed in the newly published “Close-Up 2025: RSF Report on Press Freedom in Germany”.

Four years after the assassination of Greek crime reporter Giorgos Karaivaz, the criminal investigation appears stuck in a dead end.

Fourteen outlets have obtained the JTI certification, and seven spoke to RSF about their experience with the JTI and why the standard is crucial for modern journalism.

As Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye enters his second year in office, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities to speed up reforms and prioritise projects to improve the media’s economic sustainability.

In an opinion published on 4 April 2025, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention acknowledged that the detention of Algerian journalist Ihsane El Kadi from 24 December to 1 November was arbitrary.

Abducted over ten days ago by individuals claiming to be intelligence officers, journalists Guezouma Sanogo, Boukari Ouoba and Luc Pagbelguem reappeared in an online video released on 2 April.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has documented the unpunished crimes committed by the warring parties and calls on the international community to urgently pressure both sides to protect journalists.

RSF condemns this mistreatment and calls for police to investigate the incident.