Across Latin America, new digital and local media are pushing back against the erosion of journalism’s fundamentals with an impressive diversity in their operations, revenue sources, and innovations, write Andres Schafer and Nathalie Alvaray in this first part of their deep dive into how journalists and media builders are breaking the media mold. It’s about […]

“World peace depends on understanding between peoples. If peoples are to understand one another, it is essential that they have good information.” With these words, in 1950, in the shadow of the Second World War, the founders of the International Press Institute (IPI) announced the creation of a global network dedicated to promoting press freedom, […]

The United States government today won its appeal in the Julian Assange case, with London’s High Court ruling that the UK can extradite WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange to the U.S. to face espionage charges. IPI has consistently opposed the extradition of Assange and calls once again on the UK authorities to release him and on […]

Local Journalism Project Case Study: Convoca (Peru)   The backstory: Convoca was born as an investigative journalism association in 2014, founded by a team of journalists, developers, and data analysts. They started as a partnership to conduct investigations, and their first publication was their contribution to the Swiss Leaks investigation. The team had their main […]