We end 2023 on a dire note for journalists and press freedom. At least 65 journalists have been killed in Israeli airstrikes and ground raids since the start of the Israel-Gaza war just under three months ago. This is the largest number of journalists killed in such a short span of time in any modern […]

To receive regular updates on IPI’s media innovation work, and case studies from our global network, sign up to our newsletter The Outlook. Independent media outlets are up against challenges ranging from low public trust to unstable revenue models, and they are vulnerable to political and technological changes – of which there have been many […]

The new Polish government’s abrupt dismissal of the supervisory bodies of the country’s public television broadcaster TVP and national news agency PAP risks setting an alarming precedent that must be urgently rectified by new rules to permanently protect these institutions’ independence, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. The previous Law and Justice (PiS) government […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemns the multi-million-euro legal action taken against media and journalists by the nephew of the country’s prime minister over their revelations about his connections to the ‘Predatorgate’ spyware scandal and renews its calls for measures to combat vexatious lawsuits against the press in Greece. On 24 November, Grigoris Dimitriadis, […]