In the throes of the U.S. financial crisis in early 2009, Fortune Magazine Asia Editor William Bill Powell wrote a cover story called, “Is China Sinking?” “That story was 180 degrees wrong, completely wrong,” Powell said on Saturday, addressing a financial reporting workshop marking the kick-off of the International Press Institute’s 2011 World Congress in […]

A Baku appeals court today ordered the conditional release of an Azerbaijani journalist sentenced in December to six years in prison on a spurious treason charge. Rauf Mirgadirov was arrested in April 2014 at Baku’s Heydar Alivev Airport after being abruptly deported from Turkey, where had worked as a correspondent for two Azerbaijani newspapers. The […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in over 120 countries, is deeply concerned about the newly issued measures for regulating Internet cafés in Jordan. According to information before IPI, the Jordanian Ministry of Interior has recently issued regulations for the close monitoring of Internet cafés under […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) has called on authorities in the Russian republic of Ingushetia to hold accountable those responsible for yesterday’s attack on six Russian and foreign journalists investigating human rights abuses in the north Caucasus region. According to reports, around 20 masked men wielding knives and clubs ambushed the journalists in their minibus […]