The International Press Institute (IPI) has partnered with Austria’s Photographische Gesellschaft (PHG), publisher Edition Lammerhuber, UNESCO, the Austrian Parliament and the Austrian Parliamentary Reporting Association to present the 2014 Alfred Fried Photography Award for peace photograph of the year. Submissions for the Award, which carries a prize of €5,000, will be accepted until Sept. 5, […]

Lydia Ngoolo normally covers human interest stories for the Kenya Star. But when the reporter wrote about a house that some neighbours believe was once used by Osama bin Laden and continues to serve as a haven for militants, she began receiving threats by telephone. Ngoolo changed her phone number and went into hiding after […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned an Israeli security forces raid on a Palestinian printing plant in an apparent effort to halt publication of several newspapers. Security forces stormed the Al-Ayyam daily and stopped its printing operations, according to the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms and IPI sources. The Ramallah-based newspaper prints […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed concern over recent developments in Turkey in which journalists were targeted with excessive prison sentences and the prime minister urged grieving families to sue his media critics. Turkish media reported last week that prosecutors were seeking 26 to 52 years behind bars for daily Taraf journalist Mehmet Baransu and […]