IPI today joined the Media Freedom Rapid Response organisations in expressing concerns over the recent wave of gagging lawsuits initiated by companies against several independent media outlets in France, and denouncing the clear message sent to the French journalistic community to not report information of public interest. We join the French journalists’ unions in expressing […]

Since coming to power in April 2022, Slovenia’s new centre-left government led by Prime Minister Robert Golob has pressed ahead with a campaign pledge to reform the country’s outdated media law and strengthen the independence of Radio-Television Slovenia (RTV). The centrepiece of this reform is a legislative effort to depoliticize the management of the public […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) has now documented more than 700 attacks on journalists, acts of censorship and serious violations of media freedom since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. The data from IPI’s Ukraine War Press Freedom Tracker underscores the devastating toll the conflict has already taken on independent journalism, media […]

A team of pioneering European media innovators from Spain, Norway, Portugal, Slovakia, and Hungary will form IPI’s Media Innovation Europe jury. They will choose the next generation of media change makers that will take part in IPI’s six-month accelerator programme. The Transition Accelerator will deliver the skills to help carry newsrooms through the digital transition. […]