Comment sections of news sites are one of the arenas where journalists may become targets of abuse and vitriol. To tackle this issue, media organizations in the UK have adopted various measures to better manage and moderate the comments on their websites. Representatives of the International Press Institute (IPI) and the Organization for Security and […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a Vienna-based global press freedom organization, today launched a new report on online abuse against journalists in Poland, identifying domestic politics, refugees, Polish-Jewish history and gender issues as the topics most likely to attract threatening and hateful messages. IPI conducted a fact-finding mission to Poland in June 2018 as part of […]

2015 marked what many thought would mark a monumental shift in Myanmar’s political landscape. The citizens of a country ruled for decades by the military headed for the polls in November in the first democratic election in decades. The media were nervously expecting long-overdue freedoms and rights, including being able to report critically without the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, publishers and leading journalists, today welcomed news that police in Slovaka have detained eight people in connection with the February murder of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová. However, IPI Deputy Director Scott Griffen emphaized that justice would only served when all those […]