The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today called for key segments of a new cybercrime bill in British Virgin Islands (BVI) to be reconsidered over concerns the law would stifle press freedom, particularly through online criminal defamation provisions. On October 18, the legislature […]

Download the report. This report reflects the initial findings of the joint mission to Hungary carried out by the International Press Institute (IPI), Article 19, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF), the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), Free Press Unlimited (FPU) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF). […]

The new European commissioner for values and transparency, Věra Jourová, assured the International Press Institute (IPI) in a meeting in November that the European Commission will do its utmost to ensure the protection of media freedom and media pluralism in the EU. Jourová told an IPI delegation, led by IPI Executive Director Barbara Trionfi, that […]

Die Politik der türkis-blauen Regierung hat in den letzten beiden Jahren gezeigt, dass das aktuelle Mediensystem politisch beeinflussbar ist. Allein im ersten Jahr der Regierung Kurz ist Österreich im internationalen Pressefreiheitsranking von Reporter ohne Grenzen um fünf Plätze auf Platz 16 abgerutscht, nahezu die Hälfte der Journalistinnen und Journalisten im Land sehen laut einer Umfrage […]