Journalists around the world face online harassment for their critical reporting. In particular, female journalists receive a disproportionate number of online attacks and threats compared to their male colleagues. The vicious and widespread nature of these attacks reflects latent misogyny in society and not only endangers the gains that female journalists have made in the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today reiterated its call on Singapore authorities to stop their harassment of Dr. PJ Thum, an IPI member and managing director of New Naratif, and drop the police case against him. Dr. Thum was summoned to the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today welcomed the announcement that a Polish court has suspended the controversial purchase of newspaper group Polska Press by state-controlled oil company PKN Orlen. On Monday April 12, the Court of Competition and Consumer Protection in Warsaw […]

Myanmar has charged six journalists, including a correspondent for the Associated Press, with violating the public order as the country’s authorities step up their campaign to silence media coverage of pro-democracy protests. The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today repeated its call on […]