Six editors from Spain, Brazil, the U.S., Norway, Ukraine, and Austria were newly elected to the International Press Institute (IPI)’s global Executive Board at the organization’s recent World Congress in New York City. IPI welcomes as Executive Board members: Borja Echevarría, Managing Editor, El País, Spain  Paula Miraglia, Founder and Editor, Nexo, Brazil Amelia Newcomb, […]

Philanthropic organizations keen to support independent journalism have long used grant funding as a way to help news outlets keep the wolves from the door. But more and more, they’re looking to the world of “impact investment” for innovative ways to fund media as a public good. Also known as “mission investing”, impact investing aims […]

The IPI global network expresses its condolences to the family and colleagues of Somalian journalist Ahmed Mohamed Shukur, a journalist and camera operator who was killed in a bomb attack while covering a military operation near Mogadishu on September 30. We call on authorities to swiftly and thoroughly investigate this killing and to step up […]

IPI today joined the Media Freedom Rapid Response organisations in expressing concerns over the recent wave of gagging lawsuits initiated by companies against several independent media outlets in France, and denouncing the clear message sent to the French journalistic community to not report information of public interest. We join the French journalists’ unions in expressing […]