At an IPI event held yesterday at the International Press Institute’s headquarters in Vienna, Austria, Russian investigative journalist Galina Sidorova, who is IPI Vice-Chairwoman and the former editor-in-chief of the monthly Sovershenno Secretno, spoke about recent changes in the Russian media and the difficulties that Russian investigative journalists face today. “The media situation has worsened […]

The International Press Institute has joined thirty three members of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX) in calling for Ugandan President Yoweri Mousevani to ensure that press freedom is respected ahead of general elections, which are scheduled for Friday. The appeal, led by the Uganda-based Human Rights Network for Journalists and the Committee to […]

The International Press Institute is encouraged by a series of positive meetings with government officials, diplomats and journalists that point toward the nation moving forward on negotiations for a self-regulatory, non-statutory media body. IPI Acting Director, Alison Bethel McKenzie, is in Lusaka to conduct a training session for senior journalists on media self regulation as […]

Turkish police have raided the offices and homes of four journalists associated with dissident news website OdaTV amid accusations that they were part of a plot to overthrow the government, the International Press Institute (IPI) has learned from its Turkish National Committee. Police in Istanbul seized documents as well as computers in the raid on […]