The undersigned organisations express their serious concern at the legal proceedings that have been brought against investigative journalist Scott Stedman, his U.S. media company Forensic News, and three of his colleagues. Between June 2019 and June 2020, Forensic News published six articles and a podcast about the business affairs of British-Israeli security consultant and businessman […]

The Executive Board of the International Press Institute (IPI), the world’s oldest global network of journalists, editors and publishers for press freedom, is holding its semi-annual meeting in Budapest on February 17-18 to shine a spotlight on the challenges facing media freedom in Hungary ahead of the upcoming general election. During a two-day visit to […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network for independent journalism, today published a full-page print ad in The Washington Post calling on Mexico to end impunity for the many horrific killings of journalists in the country. Since the start of 2022 alone, five Mexican journalists have been violently murdered, marking one of the darkest […]

IPI welcomes the Tanzanian government’s decision to lift a ban on four newspapers. However, this is only a first step toward restoring press freedom in the country. Restrictive media laws must be reformed to ensure independent media outlets can operate freely and without fear of retaliation. On February 11, Tanzania’s Ministry of Information, Communications and […]