Guatemalan journalist and IPI World Press Freedom Hero José Rubén Zamora, head of the now-shuttered elPeriódico newspaper, has been convicted on charges of money laundering and sentenced to six years in prison. The IPI global press freedom network strongly condemns this verdict as a serious attack on press freedom and calls on Guatemala and states […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemns the unacceptable intimidation and obstruction of journalist Crina Boros by staff in the forestry data team at the Romanian Environment Ministry and calls for disciplinary measures to be taken against one individual who insulted the journalist in a misogynistic manner during the meeting. IPI and our global network […]

With democracy under pressure globally, journalism faces growing hurdles to upholding the public’s access to independent news during pivotal election periods, editors from five countries — Turkey, Brazil, Kenya, Poland, and India — told the 2023 IPI World Congress. In media landscapes around the world, common themes emerged throughout the May 25 panel, titled “Journalism in […]

Surrounded by images of journalists killed for their work, Carlos Dada, the director of El Faro in El Salvador, remarked on the need for journalists to continue pushing back against authoritarian, anti-free press policies, even in the face of harassment, threats, and other risks to press freedom worldwide. “The ones who are here work under […]