The gradual decay of media freedom in Hungary and other Eastern European countries is, by now, a very well-documented story. But the foreign press tends to focus on the most visible and easy-to-explain stories: the passage of a new law, the closure of a newspaper or the acquisition of large media companies by government-friendly businessmen. […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and journalists for press freedom, today condemned the arrest in Myanmar on October 10 of three journalists with the Eleven Media group and demanded their immediate release. According to reports, police summoned top editors U Kyaw Zaw Lin and Nari Min along with […]

The members of the independent IJ4EU jury, led by Süddeutsche Zeitung Editor-in-Chief Wolfgang Krach, today called on Bulgarian authorities to open a “comprehensive and transparent” investigation into the murder of journalist Victoria Marinova. Marinova’s last report for the broadcaster TVN, which aired on September 30, focused on revelations of corruption involving EU funds worth hundreds […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and journalists for press freedom, today expressed concern over the apparent abduction of Jamal Khashoggi, a noted Saudi Arabian journalist living in self-imposed exile in the United States, at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey. In a letter to the king of Saudi […]