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IPI and IPI North America Committee protest planned changes in U.S. visa rules for foreign journalists

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, and the IPI North America Committee today voiced concern over proposed changes to U.S. visa rules that would disadvantage foreign journalists working in the United States. IPI aligns itself with other press freedom groups in opposing these […]

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IPI urges Tanzania to allow media to freely cover elections

The government of Tanzania must allow the media to freely to cover the country’s October 28 presidential and national legislative elections, the International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom said. Tens of millions of Tanzanians will be voting on October 28 to elect a president […]

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Mahmoud Hussein completes 1400 days in Egypt prison

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today reiterated its demand for the release of IPI member and Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein from Egyptian prison. Hussein has spent 1,400 days in the notorious Tora prison as the Egyptian government has repeatedly and illegally […]

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New problems and some old ones: Austria’s media landscape under the pandemic

Covid-19 changed the world. So it’s only logical that it also had implications on the Austrian media landscape. Many of the implications are not specific to Austria: From March on, a lot of journalists started to work from home. Several newspapers decreased the number of pages, radio shows canceled episodes. Face-to-face interviews became impossible. Reporting […]

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