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IPI World Congress 2011: Q&A with International News Safety Institute director

Rodney Pinder is the director of International News Safety Institute (INSI), an independent, non-profit organization aimed at ensuring the safety of journalists. Pinder is a former senior foreign correspondent and news executive for Thomson Reuters. IPI: INSI has been described as a unique organization. What makes it different from other press freedom organizations such as […]

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‘Covering North Korea’: IPI World Congress 2011

As a nine-year-old child in North Korea, Chol-Hwan Kang was sent with his family to a concentration camp after his grandfather was accused of treason. The next 10 years were a constant struggle to stay alive. He ate rats to survive. He watched friends die from exhaustion and hunger. Kang attributes his escape to South […]

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IPI World Congress 2011: Q&A with former Beijing bureau chief of Austria’s ORF broadcaster

Cornelia Vospernik is the former Beijing Bureau Chief of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) and current Head of News, of ORF Eins. She began her career freelancing for a local ORF studio in the Austrian province of Carinthia at the age of 15. From 2000 to 2002, she was the ORF London bureau chief, and […]

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Resolutions issued by the IPI Membership at the 60th annual IPI General Assembly in Taipei, Taiwan

The members of the International Press Institute, meeting at the 60th annual IPI General Assembly at the IPI World Congress 2011 in Taipei, Taiwan, on 26 September 2011, unanimously passed  seven resolutions condemning serious violations of press freedom around the world. Focal points of the resolutions were: -A request for the repeal of criminal defamation […]

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