The International Press Institute (IPI) today announced that it has been awarded $2.7 million by Google Inc, to sponsor the ‘IPI News Innovation Contest’, a project aimed at advancing the future of digital news by funding new ways to inform communities in Europe, Middle East and Africa. The IPI News Innovation Contest aims to encourage […]

The Vienna-based South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists in South East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), is concerned that recent judicial and political pressure on private broadcaster, A1 TV, in the Republic of Macedonia – Former Yugoslav Republic […]

Approximately three weeks after Vietnamese investigative journalist, Le Hoang Hung, died following an arson attack, the journalist’s wife, Tran Thi Thuy Lieu, confessed to the murder, according to local news reports in Vietnam. Vietnamese police reportedly said yesterday that Lieu confessed that she poured petrol on her husband while he was sleeping and set him […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) said today that it is encouraged by Slovak authorities’ progress in honouring their commitment to revise the country’s controversial 2008 press law. An IPI delegation met Friday in Bratislava with Slovak Minister of Culture Daniel Krajcer, who said his government was proposing legislation that would change the “right to reply” […]