During the closing discussion at IPI’s World Congress on Friday, September 17, panelists agreed that in today’s world, newsrooms need to seek innovative ways to fund their work. The session “How fund the journalism we need” was organized in partnership with Vienna’s Presseclub Concordia. Anita Zielina, director of news innovation and leadership at the […]

Yuliya Slutskaya, the founder of Press Club Belarus and a long-time, fierce advocate of independent journalism in Belarus, was jailed last December along with four of her colleagues – including her son – and spent eight months in pre-trial detention. She was honoured at this month’s IPI World Congress as the 2021 IPI-IMS World Press […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joins its partners in the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) is expressing serious concern about the wave of abusive legal actions against Croatian online news outlet Index.hr. Its publisher Index Promocija d.o.o. is currently facing 56 defamation lawsuits and nine further defamation suits target its journalists. Three of the […]

The undersigned partners of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) today express serious concern over the brutal beating of two filmmakers who were shooting a documentary about illegal logging in Romania and call on the country’s prosecutor general and law enforcement authorities to ensure all those responsible are swiftly brought to justice. On 16 September […]