Russia will close all functions of the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle in Russia. IPI strongly condemns Russia’s decision as a severe and unjustified attack on media freedom. On February 3, Russia announced it will shut down the office of German international public broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW). The staff of DW will lose their accreditation to […]

Child abuse. Russian spying. Embezzlement of EU funding. Cancer tourism. Climate change denialism. European funding for dictators. A wave of new investigative stories supported by the International Press Institute (IPI)’s IJ4EU fund have hit the news, underscoring the value of financial support for investigative journalism in the public interest. Read below for some of the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and journalists, today condemned the Nigerian army’s raid on the Daily Trust newspaper on Sunday, January 6, 2019, and demanded the release of the paper’s regional editor. In a letter sent to the Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohamed, IPI Executive […]

Who are the Russian spies captured in the Baltic countries over the few past years, how are they recruited and in which other ways is Russia pursuing its agenda in Europe? These were some of the questions that a five-country team of investigative journalists led by the Baltic Center for Investigative Journalism (Re:Baltica) sought to […]