IPI Press Freedom Adviser for Europe Steven Ellis is in Istanbul to speak at the Congress of the Freedom for Journalists Platform, Turkey on World Press Freedom Day, May 3, 2011. His speech is below: We are here today to talk about press freedom in Turkey. IPI’s Director, Alison Bethel McKenzie, and our Press Freedom […]

I would like to thank the organizers of this event and the IPI National Committee in Norway for this opportunity to address the participants of the Norwegian Editors Forum and celebrate with you International World Press Freedom Day. Before presenting one by one what IPI has found to be the top ten threats to press […]

María Teresa Ronderos is the president of the Colombian Foundation for Freedom of the Press (FLIP) and a teacher at the Foundation for the Ibero American New Journalism (FNPI). She is also a consulting editor for Semana, a prestigious economic and political magazine, which reported on the illegal wire- tapping of politicians and journalists between […]

A Sri Lankan court on Thursday placed a national ban on the news website LankaeNews.com until 12 May. The court also extended the remand of Shantha Wijesooriya – a journalist working for the website who was arrested on 25 April for contempt of court – until 12 May, when the next court hearing is scheduled […]