“If you want to get rid of independent and public media, the first thing you have to do is convince the people that it is not needed”, Nina Horaczek, chief reporter for the Viennese weekly Falter, told the International Press Institute (IPI) in a recent interview. It’s an objective that appears to be a driving […]

Democracies around the world are failing to protect journalists and investigate killings and crimes against them, the International Press Institute (IPI) said to mark International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists on November 2. According to the Vienna-based IPI’s Death Watch, as many as 40 journalists lost their lives over the last year. […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) has published a new resource for online moderators of news outlets to address abuse that takes place on social media. The tools and strategies for managing debate on Facebook and Twitter are part of IPI’s Newsrooms Ontheline platform, which collects best practices for countering online harassment against journalists. Newsrooms worldwide […]

A coalition of 10 international press freedom and journalism organizations including the International Press Institute (IPI) has intervened at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in support of a case brought by İdris Sayılğan, a Turkish-Kurdish journalist jailed since 2016 on baseless anti-terror charges. The intervention focuses on the crucial question of domestic remedy, which […]