Capital is enhancing user experience with AI-powered audio integration

Bulgaria’s largest business media shares their approach to audience research and building a successful AI audio product

Azerbaijan: IPI demands release of prison sentence of OC Media contributor Bahruz Samadov

Samadov sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of treason

Switzerland: Police raid journalist’s home under draconian banking secrecy law

Case is first direct targeting of a journalist under the country’s much-criticised banking legislation

Azerbaijan: IPI condemns prison sentences handed to 7 journalists

Court in Baku jails media workers with Abzas Media, RFE/RL and Turan news agency

IPI, partners express alarm over deterioration of press freedom in El Salvador

Journalists in Central American country facing escalating threats

Syria: Urgent answers needed over missing American journalist Austin Tice

Fate of journalist captured by Assad regime in 2012 remains unclear

Serbia: Media regulator election again made a mockery of EU-required reforms

Process to appoint new members of media regulator council was again conducted in non-transparent and discriminatory manner

Saudi Arabia: IPI condemns execution of journalist Turki al-Jasser

Execution marks latest development in Saudi Arabia’s violent persecution of the press

Georgia: Independent media face new wave of repression as new laws come into effect

Laws on foreign funding and broadcast content empower authorities to censor, prosecute and close media which provide vital sources of news and information to the public

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United States: Journalists covering protests in Los Angeles face violence and detention

Recent assaults on the media indicate a pattern of increasing threats to press freedom in the U.S.

Report: The shrinking space for journalism in Croatia

New MFRR report follows advocacy mission to Zagreb in May

Egypt: IPI demands immediate release of British-Egyptian blogger and activist Alaa Abd el-Fattah

El-Fattah’s mother reaches 250 days on hunger strike as her son remains illegally imprisoned

Oslobođenje: Making history accessible with a user-friendly, monetizable digital archive

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s iconic independent outlet puts forward an exciting archive product

Malta: Guilty verdicts in Daphne Caruana Galizia case mark another step towards full justice

IPI and media freedom partners welcome conviction of two gang members who supplied car bomb which killed Maltese journalist

Poland: New president urged to commit to press freedom reforms

Cross-party consensus required to bolster press freedom following presidential election

World Environment Day: States must bolster support for climate and environmental journalism

IPI reiterates its call on the international community to increase support for and protection of climate and environmental journalists

IPI joins global call for immediate, unfettered access by international media to Gaza

Open letter from media and press freedom organizations demanding media access in Gaza

Climate Journalism: Revealing attacks on journalists covering environment in Europe

On World Environment Day 2025, IPI highlights reports outlining growing threats to journalists covering climate

Sudan: Photojournalist Al-Shykh Al-Samany Saadaldyn killed by drone attack

Another Sudanese journalist killed while reporting on the ongoing civil war