The International Press Institute (IPI) today named two-time Pulitzer Prize winning American author and foreign affairs columnist David Rohde as its 63rd World Press Freedom Hero. The Vienna-based group will formally present the award – which recognizes individuals who have made a significant contribution to defending and promoting press freedom, especially, but not only, if […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a subsidiary of the International Press Institute (IPI), today condemned alleged police violence against Kosovo freelance photojournalist Vedat Xhymshiti. On Saturday 14 January, the reporter was covering clashes between demonstrators and Kosovo police near the Merdare border crossing between Serbia and Kosovo, when he was allegedly struck […]

A new coalition government is in place as Yemenis prepare for elections next month, which has been some cause for some optimism. Two Yemeni chief editors told IPI they were hopeful that nascent reforms within state media and the recent appointment of a new information minister, Ali al-Amrani, could herald overall improvements for the media […]

At least 16 journalists were among the hundreds of political prisoners and prisoners of conscience released today by the government of Myanmar, also known as Burma. The Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB), an exile newspaper based in Norway, confirmed on its website that five of its journalists had been released from various prisons around the […]