In September, IPI documented 61 threats to press freedom in 15 countries across the sub-Saharan African region. The countries that recorded the most incidents of press freedom violations are Nigeria (13), the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC, 10), and Ethiopia (6).   As in August, physical, verbal, and online attacks were the most frequent type […]

This text comes from IPI’s newsletter The Outlook. Click here to sign up to receive future editions direct to your inbox. In this edition of The Outlook, IPI’s media innovation newsletter, we’re thinking about how news organizations can harness the power of AI to support their journalism – and when to pause, reflect and learn. The […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) strongly condemns the killing of Reuters photojournalist Issam Abdallah in southern Lebanon in apparent Israeli missile fire and calls on Israel to carry out a swift, thorough, and transparent investigation into the incident. Abdallah, 37, was killed near a village on the Israeli-Lebanese border on Friday where Israeli and Hezbollah […]

On the sixth anniversary of the murder of Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, we, the undersigned organizations, renew our calls for Maltese authorities to bring to justice all those responsible for her killing and to implement in full the recommendations of the public inquiry into her assassination. Caruana Galizia, who rose to prominence through her anti-corruption investigations […]