The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today vehemently condemned the 12-month jail term handed to Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai. The magistrate’s court in West Kowloon in Hong Kong sentenced Jimmy Lai, founder of Next Digital media group, which publishes the Apple Daily, […]

The IPI’s Investigative Journalism for Europe (IJ4EU) fund announced on Wednesday four winners of its inaugural IJ4EU Impact Award celebrating excellence in cross-border investigative reporting. In no particular order, the winning investigations were: The Daphne Project The Troika Laundromat Lost in Europe Fraud Factory Selected by an independent jury, the team behind each investigation receives €5,555. “We were all […]

The Monitor has always been different: the oldest U.S.-based international non-profit news organization, early to “digital first”, deep into an audience-centred focus.  Its journalism is based on one big question: How can journalism help fuel human progress? It’s a profoundly hopeful perspective that The Monitor has been bringing to its audiences for more than 113 […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) welcomed a European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruling yesterday, April 13, finding that Turkey had violated the rights of Ahmet Altan, a prominent writer and journalist with the now-shuttered Taraf newspaper. Altan has been jailed for four-and-a-half years over his alleged links to the now-outlawed Gülen movement and articles critical of […]