The International Press Institute continues to express deep concern over the deteriorating press freedom situation in Tanzania ahead of the visit of its executive director to the East African nation and its semi-autonomous Zanzibar archipelago. In a disturbing trend, two newspapers and two radio stations were suspended this year in Tanzania and more than half […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today is making available on its website a downloadable version of “Use With Care: A Reporter’s Glossary of Loaded Language in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”. The popularity of the handbook has been key for IPI´s decision to release the complete PDF of the handbook containing more than 75 alternative words and […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomed indications that Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta will not sign a controversial media bill that was approved by parliament last month. IPI further urged lawmakers to abandon other efforts to assert more government control over the media. William Oloo Janak, chairman of the Kenyan Correspondents Association, told IPI that […]

After last week’s historic repeal of criminal defamation in Jamaica, the International Press Institute (IPI) is looking ahead to similar efforts underway in the region. IPI and its regional partner, the Association of Caribbean MediaWorkers (ACM), are currently leading a campaign to abolish defamation as a criminal offence in the Caribbean. In an interview last […]