Local journalism is under threat: Newsrooms are closing and shedding reporters, meaning there are fewer watchdogs keeping local officials honest. This is how Scott Kraft, editor-at-large at the Los Angeles Times and moderator of this panel on local news at the IPI World Congress 2022, introduced the session.  Local news is on the frontline, holding […]

During Day 2 of IPI’s World Congress at Columbia University in New York City, panelists from India, Myanmar, Russia, Pakistan and Central America talked about what it’s like to have front-row seats to the deterioration of press freedom. A changed media landscape, a lack of local independent media, disappearing sources, and the weaponization of disinformation […]

The members of the International Press Institute (IPI), meeting at their 71st annual General Assembly during the IPI World Congress on September 8, 2022 in New York City, adopted by unanimous vote a resolution calling for full justice for the killing of Palestinian-American journalist and IPI World Press Freedom Hero Shireen Abu Akleh.  On May […]

Regulation of big tech and social media platforms is urgently required to tackle the spread of falsehoods and the increasing political weaponization of disinformation online, Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa told IPI’s World Congress 2022 in New York. Speaking at a panel entitled “Holding the line for journalism”, Ressa, the CEO of news outlet […]