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Spain: Ensuring justice for women journalists targeted by online harassment

Online harassment hinders the ability of women journalists to carry out their journalistic activities, affects personal lives, and threatens their safety. Women journalists regularly encounter lack of support in their cases, and are advised to limit social media presence or worse – to get used to the attacks as being a part of their job. […]

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Philippines: Veteran radio broadcaster Percy Lapid fatally shot

The IPI global network strongly condemns the killing of veteran radio broadcaster Percival Mabasa, also known as Percy Lapid, who was gunned down in Manila on October 3. We urge authorities to conduct a thorough investigation into this murder and to hold the perpetrators accountable. IPI also calls on President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. to take […]

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#IPIWoCo Recap: Can ‘impact investors’ protect independent media?

Philanthropic organizations keen to support independent journalism have long used grant funding as a way to help news outlets keep the wolves from the door. But more and more, they’re looking to the world of “impact investment” for innovative ways to fund media as a public good. Also known as “mission investing”, impact investing aims […]

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Somalia: Journalist Ahmed Mohamed Shukur killed

The IPI global network expresses its condolences to the family and colleagues of Somalian journalist Ahmed Mohamed Shukur, a journalist and camera operator who was killed in a bomb attack while covering a military operation near Mogadishu on September 30. We call on authorities to swiftly and thoroughly investigate this killing and to step up […]

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