The Myanmar junta’s crackdown on independent media and civil society has been intensifying again in recent weeks. On December 14, freelance photojournalist Ko Soe Naing died in military custody after being arrested earlier this month while covering a pro-democracy protest in the country’s capital Yangon. He became the first Burmese journalist known to have died […]

His Excellency Leszek Miller Prime Minister of Poland Chancellery of the Prime Minister Warsaw Poland Vienna, 27 February 2002 Fax: (004822) 621 88 27 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, would like to bring to your attention the charges brought against three members of […]

The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) coalition launched its third press freedom monitoring report today, highlighting key threats to the exercise of journalism in Europe between November 2020 and the end of February 2021. The report was compiled by the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) with the support of the International Press […]

This report followed on from an earlier look by the IPI global network at local media that contrasted local media in the developed West (particularly the U.S., the UK, and France) and in emerging economies, particularly in South Africa and the Asia/Pacific region. This deeper look at local media in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and […]