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IJ4EU fund awards €450,000 to 13 investigative projects in Europe

An independent jury has awarded a combined €450,000 to 13 cross-border reporting teams under the latest call for applications to the flagship grant scheme of IPI’s IJ4EU fund. The Investigation Support Scheme grants will allow journalists based in the European Union, EU candidate countries and beyond to collaborate on topics ranging from surveillance, security and […]

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Serbia: IPI alarmed by verdict penalizing investigative platform over court report

The International Press Institute (IPI) and its global network today express concern over the decision by a judge in Serbia to find the Crime and Corruption Investigative Network (KRIK) guilty of defamation over a report it published about evidence presented in court involving the country’s new Interior Minister. IPI believes this ruling unjustifiably penalises the […]

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Somalia: Journalist Mohamed Isse Koonaa killed in suicide bomb attack

The IPI global network condemns the double suicide bomb attack that killed one journalist, Mohamed Isse Koonaa, and injured two others and scores of other people on October 29, 2022, in Mogadishu, the capital city of Somalia. According to a statement by the Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS), Mohamed Isse Koonaa, a journalist working with Universal […]

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India: IPI condemns raid on The Wire, site’s top editors

The IPI global network condemns the raid by Indian police on top editors at the Indian news site The Wire after a complaint by a communications offical of Indian’s ruling party. On October 31 police in Delhi searched the homes of The Wire editors Siddharth Varadarajan, MK Venu, Sidharth Bhatia, and Jahnavi Sen as well […]

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