Leading editors and media experts from Bangladesh, Spain, Turkey, and the United States have been elected vice-chairs of the International Press Institute (IPI)‘s global Executive Board. The new vice-chairs, as selected by their fellow members of the Executive Board shortly after the 2021 IPI World Congress, are: •  Mahfuz Anam, editor of Bangladesh’s The Daily […]

October 2 marks the third anniversary of the 2018 murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi, a heinous act for which justice is still denied. The IPI global network strongly condemns the continued impunity in the case and calls on the international community to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for the murder.  On October 2, 2018, […]

As the challenges facing newsrooms multiply, how can philanthropy help independent media “keep the lights on” without creating dependence or causing collateral damage? As donor budgets tighten, how can funders ensure the media landscape is pluralistic and free from interference? Donors, journalists and media development specialists joined forces last week to wrestle with those questions […]

  Philanthropy alone can’t save the free press, but it can unlock and catalyse other forms of support that are critical to the sustainability of independent media, from taxpayer funding to impact investment. That was the message from experts at a recent roundtable discussion held at the IPI World Congress in September 2021 on the […]