The International Press Institute (IPI) and IMS (International Media Support) are proud to announce this year’s shortlist for the IPI-IMS Free Media Pioneer award. These are 10 outstanding organizations on five continents that are blazing trails in defence of the public’s right to independent news. The IPI-IMS Free Media Pioneer award is presented to organizations […]

IPI and IMS are proud to announce Mexican investigative journalist Carmen Aristegui as the recipient of the 2023 World Press Freedom Hero award. The award honours Aristegui’s decades of fearless reporting on corruption in Mexico regardless of the government in power, and her unyielding commitment to critical journalism in the face of targeted efforts to […]

The Executive Board of the International Press Institute (IPI), including Nobel Peace Prize winning journalist Maria Ressa, has today written a letter to Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal reporter currently behind bars in a Moscow prison on bogus espionage charges. Read the full letter below. Dear Evan, We hope the Lefortovo prison and its […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined media freedom partners in writing to the President of Georgia, Salomé Zourabichvili, urging her to officially pardon leading TV station owner and publisher Nika Gvaramia, who has been in jail since May 2022 after being sentenced on politically motivated charges. Salome Zourabichvili President of Georgia Administration of the […]