“North Korea may be the world’s most shrouded country, but on Tuesday Google Maps lifted the veil just a little, uploading a map of the police state complete with street names in the capital,” The New York Times reports…

A Ukrainian court has sentenced former police chief Olexiy Pukach to life imprisonment for murdering journalist Georgy Gongadze (left) in 2000, “a crime which rocked the country,” the BBC reports:

Pukach confessed but said he had acted on the …

Scores of pro-democracy activists were detained and at least five sentenced to prison after a police crackdown on a peaceful protest in Azerbaijan on Saturday.

“Two prominent journalists, Emin Milli and Khadija Ismayilova, were among up to 100 people detained …

Advances in mobile technology, the expansion of the Internet, and the development of social networks have provided new communication platforms and digital tools for journalists, citizen reporters, and bloggers. They have helped break down barriers to press freedom and advanced …

The worldwide practice of investigative reporting has grown dramatically since the fall of communism began in 1989, writes David E. Kaplan, director of the Global Investigative Journalism Network. The field’s emphasis on public accountability, targeting of crime and corruption, …

The exposure of virulent anti-Semitic and anti-Western sentiments by Egypt’s President Mohammed Morsi is “raising questions about Mr. Morsi’s efforts to present himself as a force for moderation and stability,” The New York Times reports:

Nearly three years …

The west should not set aside its values to embrace a Ukraine that looks more likely to become Europe’s next Belarus rather than its next Poland.

Viktor Yanukovich, Ukraine’s president, is “flirting” with joining Russia’s proposed customs union “as part …

“The disappearance nearly one month ago of Sombath Somphone, a United States-trained agriculture specialist who led one of the most successful nonprofit organizations in Laos, has baffled his family and friends and raised alarms that a nascent liberalization of the …

The most notable fact about China’s anti-censorship protest is that it isn’t isolated an isolated incident, says a leading analyst.

“On Dec. 26, 38 prominent academics, writers and journalists wrote an open letter to the Party calling for democratization and …

China’s revolt against media controls “has spread to a second newspaper amid mounting public anger over heavy-handed government censorship” after the Beijing News “refused a request from censors to republish a propaganda editorial that criticized Guangdong-based Southern Weekend for fighting back …