“In the past year, the IPI has done so much in defending the right to freedom of expression and I would like to express my utmost respect to it,” Mr. Den-yi Wu, Premier of the Republic of China (Taiwan), noted during the closing ceremony of the 2011 IPI World Congress in Taipei, Taiwan (ROC) on […]

Rodney Pinder is the director of International News Safety Institute (INSI), an independent, non-profit organization aimed at ensuring the safety of journalists. Pinder is a former senior foreign correspondent and news executive for Thomson Reuters. IPI: INSI has been described as a unique organization. What makes it different from other press freedom organizations such as […]

As a nine-year-old child in North Korea, Chol-Hwan Kang was sent with his family to a concentration camp after his grandfather was accused of treason. The next 10 years were a constant struggle to stay alive. He ate rats to survive. He watched friends die from exhaustion and hunger. Kang attributes his escape to South […]

Cornelia Vospernik is the former Beijing Bureau Chief of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) and current Head of News, of ORF Eins. She began her career freelancing for a local ORF studio in the Austrian province of Carinthia at the age of 15. From 2000 to 2002, she was the ORF London bureau chief, and […]