The International Press Institute (IPI) today announced the inclusion of recently re-elected Austrian President Heinz Fischer in its World Congress programme. This is the fourth time IPI has held its World Congress in Austria. The Federal President will participate at the Opening Dinner of the Congress, which will be held in the Hofburg Palace in […]

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is pleased to announce the “First South East and Central Europe Investigative Journalism Days, which will be held in Becici/Budva, Montenegro, from 24 – […]

A journalist in Orissa, India was brutally beaten on 6 May, a day after his paper published an article he wrote alleging irregularities in a government-funded welfare scheme. Biranjan Mallick, who works for local vernacular newspaper Khabar in Suninda, a village in the Balanga district of the eastern Indian state of Orissa, was beaten after […]

The Supreme Court of Slovakia is suing a Slovakian radio station to the tune of €200,000 in a lawsuit alleging that the station falsely suggested that the Supreme Court had spent €32,700 on the refurbishment of the bathroom of the court’s president. If found guilty, the station may be ordered to pay damages to Supreme […]