Over the past five years, Věra Jourová, Vice-President of the European Commission for Values and Transparency, has been leading the Commission’s efforts to strengthen media freedom under its Democracy Action Plan. This has resulted in an unprecedented array of legislative initiatives through the completion of the European Media Freedom Act, the Anti-SLAPP Directive, the issuing […]

Press freedom matters because humanity matters. IPI Executive Board Chair Khadija Patel puts it succinctly in a special video from IPI members to mark World Press Freedom Day. Today, on World Press Freedom Day, IPI stands in solidarity with journalists across the globe. We honour their courage in speaking truth to power and their vital […]

On World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) 2024, the partner organisations of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) stand in solidarity with media workers everywhere and draw attention to the deteriorating press freedom situation in Europe. Since WPFD 2023, the MFRR partners have documented more than 1,000 media freedom violations affecting over 1,500 journalists or media […]

Am Welttag der Pressefreiheit 2024 richtet das Deutsche Nationalkomitee des International Press Institute (IPI) den Blick auf Journalistinnen und Journalisten in allen Teilen der Welt und ihren wichtigen Beitrag für die Entwicklung aufgeklärter Gesellschaften und mündiger Bürgerinnen und Bürger. Seit seiner Gründung vor mehr als 70 Jahren setzt sich das globale IPI-Netzwerk für den Schutz […]