The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and journalists for press freedom, today expressed concern over the apparent abduction of Jamal Khashoggi, a noted Saudi Arabian journalist living in self-imposed exile in the United States, at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. In a letter to the king of Saudi […]

Comment sections of news sites are one of the arenas where journalists may become targets of abuse and vitriol. To tackle this issue, media organizations in the UK have adopted various measures to better manage and moderate the comments on their websites. Representatives of the International Press Institute (IPI) and the Organization for Security and […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a Vienna-based global press freedom organization, today launched a new report on online abuse against journalists in Poland, identifying domestic politics, refugees, Polish-Jewish history and gender issues as the topics most likely to attract threatening and hateful messages. IPI conducted a fact-finding mission to Poland in June 2018 as part of […]

2015 marked what many thought would mark a monumental shift in Myanmar’s political landscape. The citizens of a country ruled for decades by the military headed for the polls in November in the first democratic election in decades. The media were nervously expecting long-overdue freedoms and rights, including being able to report critically without the […]