The International Press Institute today called on Azerbaijani authorities to release journalist Afgan Mukhtarli, who was apparently kidnapped in neighbouring Georgia on Monday and forcibly returned to Azerbaijan, where he now faces charges of smuggling and illegal border crossing. Mukhtarli’s lawyer, Elchin Sadigov, told the Associated Press that his client was abducted from his home […]

Progressive recent court rulings in Slovakia have helped to limit excessive protection granted to public officials in civil defamation trials, a new analysis released today by the International Press Institute (IPI) suggests. Media watchdogs, including IPI’s Slovak National Committee, had in previous years raised alarm about the propensity of high-level political figures and judges to […]

Celebrating courage in journalism was the theme of the 2021 IPI World Congress award ceremony. At a special gathering at Vienna’s Haus der Musik, Belarusian editor and media manager Yuliya Slutskaya was honoured with the 2021 World Press Freedom Hero award, while Indian news site The Wire was recognized as the 2021 Free Media Pioneer. […]

Trust in media tends to peak during times of crisis. But how do public service media (PSM) maintain this degree of trust when society is not at crisis-point? Last week, the panel “Trust in Public Service Media in Shifting Times – Ways to Make It Better” at the International Press Institute (IPI)’s 2019 World Congress […]