Deutsch The subject of new rules on private media ownership has returned to the political agenda in Poland, rekindling concerns in the country and abroad that the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, which took control of the public television and radio broadcaster shortly after winning the elections in 2015, is trying to control privately-owned […]

Read in English Das Thema der neuen Regeln für den privaten Medienbesitz ist in Polen erneut auf der politische Tagesordnung vorzufinden und hat im In- und Ausland erneut Besorgnis darüber geweckt, dass die regierende Partei Recht und Gerechtigkeit (PiS), die kurz nach dem Wahlsieg 2015 die Kontrolle über den öffentlich-rechtlichen Fernseh- und Radiosender übernommen hat, […]

By IPI Advocacy Officer Jamie Wiseman Few terms have become so engrained in global political discourse in the last half decade than that of so-called “fake news.” The widely used yet ill-defined phrase has become a messy shorthand enveloping everything from social media rumours, to online political disinformation, to state-sponsored internet propaganda. With vastly different […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today expressed horror at the fatal self-immolation of a Russian journalist protesting police pressure and demanded an immediate investigation into the circumstances that led to her death. Irina Slavina, the founder and editor-in-chief of small local news […]