The 2025 IPI World Congress and Media Innovation Festival will bring together the world’s leading journalists, editors, and media leaders at the historic Schönbrunn Orangery and Apothekertrakt in Vienna, Austria, from October 23 to 25, 2025. This landmark Congress will also mark IPI’s 75th anniversary. “We’re inviting the global journalism community to Vienna next October […]

Media freedom groups today called on Turkey’s government to fully withdraw the amendments to the espionage act currently before parliament. The proposed bill would enable judges to increase sentences by up to seven years for any conviction, if the crime is ruled to have been committed against ‘the political interests of the state’ when acting […]

19 November 2024 marks 1000 days since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Marking this grim milestone, MFRR partners remember those journalists who have lost their lives reporting on Russia’s war of aggression. We also express our solidarity with those who continue to risk their lives to bring us […]

The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partners strongly condemn the verbal and physical attack on Ana Raičković, editor of the daily Pobjeda, as well as the attack on her family members. The MFRR partners welcome the swift reaction of the Montenegro Basic State Prosecutor’s Office (ODT), which identified and detained four suspects on charges of […]