Estonia, one of Europe’s smallest nations, has been well known as a trailblazer globally when it comes to digital government. Its media organizations are leaders, too, running ahead of the other two Baltic countries of Latvia and Lithuania when it comes to people committing to paying for online content. Since September 2019, when the Estonian […]

His Excellency Mr. Abdel Fattah al-Sisi President Arab Republic of Egypt 22 December 2020 Urgent appeal to release journalist Mahmoud Hussein Your excellency, On behalf the members of International Press Institute (IPI), a Vienna-based global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, I would like to express IPI’s deep concern about […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today published a full-page ad in The Washington Post calling on Egypt to release Al Jazeera journalist Mahmoud Hussein and all other jailed journalists in the country. Hussein has now been arbitrarily detained in Egypt for four years. The Doha-based journalist was arrested by Egyptian authorities upon his arrival in […]

On Saturday, March 14, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez addressed the public and announced that, due to the spread of COVID-19, a state of emergency, including restrictions on the fundamental right of free movement, would take effect across the country at midnight Sánchez’s appearance brought a historic television audience record in Spain. TVE (Televisión Española), […]