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Launching the New Media Incubator

In 2022, IPI and its consortium partners launched Media Innovation Europe, a major new project to energize Europe’s media ecosystem. The project embeds an innovation mindset in independent media across Europe to support the growth of more sustainable, audience-first newsrooms. To do this, the partners provide a mix of skills development, coaching, strategic advice, funding […]

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Austria: Serious challenges mounting for public broadcaster ORF

Austria’s public broadcaster is facing its most existential crisis since a successful referendum against political meddling in the mid-1960s established the ORF as an independent radio and TV broadcaster in the mold of the BBC.  Sixty years later, undue political influence again kicked off the current crisis, leading to the resignation of the national news […]

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Mozambique: IPI reiterates call on government to withdraw restrictive NGO law

As Mozambican President Filipe Nyusi is in New York this week to chair high-level meetings of the U.N. Security Council, the IPI global network reiterates its call on his government to withdraw a controversial bill that could be used to restrict the work of civil society groups, which play a vital role in protecting press […]

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Albania: Swift justice needed following deadly attack on Top Channel

Today, 27 March 2023, security guard Pal Kola, 60, was shot dead by unknown assailants on the premises of the leading national TV station Top Channel, where he was stationed in a booth outside the building​​. The heinous attack took place around one o’clock in the morning. State police have since established a dedicated investigative […]

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