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IPI Board Member Linus Gitahi on global digital communication

The following is a condensed version of a presentation on trends in global communication given by International Press Institute (IPI) Board Member Linus Gitahi, CEO of the Nation Media Group in Kenya, at the International Institute of Communications (IIC) Annual Conference 2011 in Johannesburg, South Africa on 3 October. Trends In Global Communication: Making Digital […]

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Petition to free Nedim Şener hits 3,000 names

A petition led by the International Press Institute (IPI) calling for the release of imprisoned Turkish investigative journalist and IPI World Press Freedom Hero Nedim Şener has already received over 3,000 signatures. On 5 January, an Istanbul court declined once again to release Şener, who has spent nearly 300 days in prison. Şener and nine […]

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Mexican journalist murdered

Unknown gunmen shot a Mexican journalist dead on Friday in the country’s first murder of a journalist this year. AP reported that journalist Raul Quirino Garza, a municipal employee who also worked for local weekly newspaper La Ultima Palabra, was killed on Friday in the state of Monterrey. A spokesman for the state detectives agency, […]

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Bangladeshi MP allegedly assaults journalist seeking comment

The International Press Institute (IPI) on Thursday expressed dismay at the alleged assault of a journalist by a Bangladeshi MP whom the reporter was attempting to interview over allegations that a decision by the MP, in his role as president of a school managing committee, to charge higher admission fees was in violation of the […]

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