IPI is conducting a fact-finding mission to Finland this week, as part of its OnTheLine project, which explores the measures media organizations are implementing in their newsrooms to cope with online attacks against journalists. Today, IPI visited the daily Maaseudun Tulevaisuus, which has a rural and agricultural focus, and the evening newspaper Iltalehti, a tabloid […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, journalists and media executives for media freedom, today condemned the move by the government of Malawi to close down the office of the Times Group in the capital, Lilongwe, on trumped-up tax-related charges. Established in 1985, the Times Group is the biggest and oldest media […]

Lea este artículo en español. For a few moments on March 26, Raquel Ejerique, a journalist with the Spanish news website eldiario.es, sat utterly frozen. That day, the television programme in which she was participating as a panellist connected live to the headquarters of Spain’s ruling Popular Party (PP), where the then-president of the Community […]

Six months have passed since a coup d’état in Zimbabwe ended the 37-year rule of Robert Mugabe, who turned the southern African country into one of the most censored environments in the world. Although the seismic shift in the political situation raised hope for a new, more open era for the country’s media, little has […]