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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 ...

Cyprus on Friday described as “an unpleasant development” the decision by Russia barring entry into its territory to three Cypriot officials connected with the deportation from the island of a ...

The EU struck out a clause in the media freedom act that would allow them to spy on journalists it emerged on Saturday, following comments by President Nikos Christodoulides that ...

The government on Tuesday sought to downplay the notion that it supports a clause in an EU bill currently under discussion that would allow European governments to spy on the ...

Israel’s military has told international news organisations Reuters and Agence France Presse that it cannot guarantee the safety of their journalists operating in the Gaza Strip, under Israeli bombardment ...

The trial of Turkish Cypriot journalist Ali Kismir, who faces ten years in prison for “insulting” the Turkish Cypriot armed forces, was postponed for the second time in court on ...

President Nikos Christodoulides on Sunday denied commenting on the matter of the Russian journalist sent back to Moscow, following his detainment in Nicosia a few days ago. The journalist’s ...

The trial of Turkish Cypriot journalist Ali Kismir, who faces 10 years in prison for “insulting” the Turkish Cypriot armed forces, was postponed in court on Friday. The court ordered adjourned ...

A raft of high-profile Turkish Cypriots have signed a petition aimed at halting the case against left-wing journalist Ali Kismir. Kismir stands accused of “insulting and defaming the morality of ...