The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a subsidiary of the International Press Institute (IPI), in 2011 registered 684 press freedom violations in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Belarus, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, the Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Turkey and Ukraine. Press freedom violations include […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) on Wednesday criticised Germany’s president following revelations that he had pressured the country’s leading tabloid to kill a critical story about an unusual personal loan he received. President Christian Wulff faced growing calls to step down after representatives from Bild magazine confirmed that he left Chief Editor Kai Diekmann a […]

In 2011, 12-31  journalists were killed because of their work, according to the International Press Institute (IPI) Death Watch. Reporters and cameramen faced a range of threats. Some were in the wrong place at the wrong time, on the job when natural disaster struck or bombs exploded. But almost all of the journalists killed in […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) recently spoke with Wieland Schneider, foreign desk editor at Austria’s Die Presse newspaper. While at university, Schneider began working as a “crazy, young” freelancer covering conflict in former Yugoslavia. Since then, he has reported from conflict zones around the world. We talked with Schneider about his recent experiences covering the revolutions in […]