The International Press Institute (IPI) today mourned the death of long-time member and Nigerian journalist Dimgba Igwe. IPI’s Nigerian National Committee on Friday issued a statement saying that it “received with shock the news of the sudden death of its distinguished member and media icon, Mr. Dimgba Igwe”, 58, who was struck by a car […]

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), today announced that it will hold a one-day conference on press freedom, the influence of politics on media, and corruption on Sept. 23, 2014 in Bucharest, Romania. The event will be opened by Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta and by […]

It was the kind of small-town political scandal that would scarcely raise an eyebrow in cities with bigger fish to fry. But when Jornal do Centro, a weekly newspaper in the central Portuguese town of Viseu, suggested in 2002 that a local courthouse’s donation of used furniture to charity was marred by favouritism, it apparently […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed outrage at the beheading of freelance American journalist Steven Sotloff by a militant affiliated with the Islamic State. “There are no words to truly express the shock, sadness and outrage we feel over the reports of the brutal murder of Mr. Sotloff,” IPI Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie […]