The International Press Institute today announced that it had been awarded a grant of $200,000 from the New York-based Ford Foundation. The 18-month grant will be used to support IPI’s core mission. The Ford Foundation grant will enable IPI to continue its work in three focus areas this year: the promotion of high standards of […]

The International Press Institute today expressed its deep concern over the treatment of journalists from news agency Reuters in Syria, where protests against the authoritarian government of President Bashar Al-Assad have spread in recent days despite the use of violence against demonstrators. Reuters’ Damascus-based correspondent Khaled Yacoub Oweis was ordered out of the troubled country […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today firmly condemned an attack on Azerbaijani journalist Seymur Haziyev, who was reportedly kidnapped early Saturday morning outside of Baku by masked men who beat him and told him to “be smart.” Haziyev, of the opposition Azadliq (Freedom) Newspaper, said that six assailants speaking Russian among themselves put a sack […]

Ma Ying-jeou, president of the Republic of China (Taiwan), will open this year’s IPI World Congress, the International Press Institute (IPI) announced today. To be held in Taipei from 24-27 September 2011, this is the second time IPI will hold its World Congress on the island known as “Ilha Formosa” (Beautiful Island). It also marks the return of […]