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Paphos honoured journalist Sevgiul Uludag in an event on Thursday, for her contribution efforts to establish the fate of people who went missing in Cyprus. Uludag’s investigative reporting, which ...

Maltese businessman Yorgen Fenech, who was accused of commissioning the murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, was acquitted on Wednesday at the end of a two-month trial. Fenech, 44, was ...

Exactly 30 years ago on Monday, on July 6, 1996, Turkish Cypriot journalist Kutlu Adali was machine gunned to death outside his home in Nicosia, the first in what was arguably Cyprus’ most ...

Condolences poured in on Thursday at the passing of Giorgos Tsalakos, a veteran journalist and newscaster, one of the most familiar faces on television for decades. “I express my sincere ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Monday expressed sorrow over the death of Turkish Cypriot journalist Sevgül Uludag. “With feelings of respect, we bid farewell to our compatriot journalist, activist and ...

Renowned Cypriot journalist Sevgul Uludag died on Sunday at the age of 67.  In a career which spanned over four and a half decades, Uludag devoted herself to the cause of ...

On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, marked around the world on May 3, the government reaffirms its absolute respect for the institutional role of journalists, the independence of the ...

Israeli forces killed three Lebanese journalists in southern Lebanon on Saturday in an airstrike that Israel’s military said had targeted one of them. Lebanese television news channel Al Manar ...

Commitment to freedom of the press and freedom of expression is not a priority of any single administration but an obligation of every government, government spokesman Konstantinos Letymbiotis said on ...

An event honouring Maroula Violari Iakovidou, Cyprus’ first female professional journalist, for her 70 years of service to journalism was held on Monday at the Journalists’ House in Nicosia. Addressing the ...

Gender equality is everyone’s business, Gender Equality Commissioner Josie Christodoulou said at Tuesday’s journalism awards ceremony held at the presidential palace. The event, part of Cyprus’s national ...

Cypriot Palestinian journalist Yahia Barzaq was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Gaza, local media confirmed on Wednesday night. Barzaq worked as a freelance journalist in the strip, with his ...

MPs got flustered on Monday on hearing from authorities that they do not know if an ex-member of the secret service, who allegedly threatened a woman on social media, has ...

Turkish Cypriot journalist Canan Onurer said she has received death threats after refusing to retract a report on alleged criminal activity involving individuals who had recently arrived on the island ...

A ‘silent protest’, organised by CY Movement to Gaza, was held in Nicosia today for the Palestinian journalists who’ve been targeted and killed in Gaza. Around 242 Palestinian journalists have ...

Two journalists in the north were charged with trespassing after reporting on an incident in which teachers were locked out of a school amid souring relations between the ruling coalition ...

A selection of Turkish Cypriot journalists gathered at the north’s police headquarters on Thursday morning to demand bolstered protection for Aysemden Akin, who received death threats after publishing a ...

The local publishing sector has seen a 28.4 per cent drop in publishing employment including editors, journalists and writers, marking the largest drop in the EU, Eurostat said on Monday. The ...

Veteran photojournalist Stelios Papastylianou died on Tuesday afternoon after suffering a heart attack. He was 73. The Union of Cyprus Journalists said Papastylianou was “a well-known and respected colleague who was ...

Alex Efthyvoulou, was a ‘legend’ for journalists, said the head of Cyprus journalist union Giorgos Frangos in his eulogy for the late reporter on Friday. Friends, relatives and colleagues of ...

The trial of Turkish Cypriot journalist Ali Kismir, who faces up to 10 years in prison for “insulting” the Turkish Cypriot armed forces, began on Tuesday, with a prosecution witness saying ...

The trial of Turkish Cypriot journalist Ali Kismir, who faces up to ten years in prison for “insulting” the Turkish Cypriot armed forces, was postponed again on Friday. Friday’s ...

By Peter Greste The photo of returning prisoners in an American plane, all grinning from ear to ear, says it all: the joy, the relief and the success of an ...

CyBC will be paying out over a million euros to journalist Evdokia Loizou, who contracted viral encephalitis from her working conditions, the court ruled on Friday. According to the Nicosia ...