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#IPIWoCo Wrap-Up: “In the heat and the dust”: the marathon of reporting the war in Ukraine

In the age of AI, Ukraine reminds the world about “good, old-fashioned journalism, in the heat and the dust”, said BBC chief international correspondent Lyse Doucet, opening IPI’s World Congress panel on the challenges faced by Ukrainian journalists, more than one year after the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion. Sadly, the “heat and the dust” […]

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Harassed, threatened and sued: Experiences of fact-checkers in Europe

  Faktograf, a Croatian fact-checking outlet, releases the final analysis of a pioneering survey on the impact of online harassment against fact-checkers in Europe. The survey is a part of the International Press Institute (IPI)-led Decoding the Disinformation Playbook project, in partnership with Faktograf and German daily TAZ. The preliminary results published last April 2 […]

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Kyrgyzstan urged to stop abusing legislation to target independent media

The recent ruling to close ‘Azattyk Media’, which can still be appealed in court, reflects a growing pattern in Kyrgyzstan to draft and arbitrarily implement controversial and ambiguous laws that could be misused to target people and institutions exercising their rights to free expression and information. Dear President Sadyr Japarov, We, the undersigned civil society […]

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Retired Ukrainian journalist detained in occupied Melitopol

The International Press Institute (IPI) global network is alarmed by the repressive arrest of retired journalist Iryna Levchenko in Melitopol, a city in Ukraine’s Zaporizhia region, occupied by Russian forces since March 2022. According to relatives in touch with the National Union of Journalists of Ukraine (NUJU), Levchenko went missing around May 6 along with […]

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