Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, would like to call on you to start your term in office by signalling your commitment to reversing the worsening and increasingly dangerous conditions in Russia’s media environment. Your predecessor, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, strongly condemns the recent wave of attacks on the Lebanese media, and calls on all involved parties to refrain from any further attacks. According to information before IPI, the recent eruption of full-fledged armed clashes between […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is concerned about the apparent lack of progress in the investigation of the attempted murder of Ivo Pukanic, co-owner and director of Nacional, a weekly […]

“On the eve of World Press Freedom Day, 3 May 2008, IPI calls upon all governments to combat limitations on press freedom and to work harder at ensuring that the media is able to report on issues of public interest,” said IPI Director David Dadge. “We are very worried that, while there is a growing […]