The International Press Institute (IPI) will hold its annual World Congress in Trinidad and Tobago, from 23-26 June 2012, the organization today officially announced. The 2012 World Congress will mark the return of IPI’s annual event to the Americas after 12 years – when the world’s media community last gathered in Boston, USA, in 2000 […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), joins two Serbian journalists’ associations in condemning mounting political pressure on Magyar Szo, a Hungarian-language daily in the multiethnic province of Vojvodina, northern Serbia. The National Council of the Hungarian Ethnic Minority, an umbrella organisation of ethnic Hungarians in Serbia, […]

The Global Coordinating Committee of Press Freedom Organizations, at its meeting held in Vienna, Austria, on 17 June, 2011, agreed to adopt the following resolutions on the Americas and Turkey by unanimous vote of the members present. Members who voted in favour of the resolutions included representatives from the International Press Institute (IPI), the International […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the shooting of a photojournalist in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The news photographer, from Britain’s Press Association, was shot in the leg Tuesday night, the second day of sectarian clashes between Protestants and Catholics. The Press Association’s Deputy Ireland Editor Steven McCafferty confirmed to IPI that the photographer was […]