This text comes from IPI’s newsletter The Outlook. Click here to sign up to receive future editions directly to your inbox. In this week’s newsletter, we share insights from a fascinating lecture titled AI in the News – Re-shaping the Public Arena by Dr. Felix M. Simon (Reuters Institute). This private lecture was organized for the Central Europe Independent Media Network. […]

The Media Freedom Rapid Response Partners (MFRR) strongly condemn Lëvizja Vetëvendosje  MP Dimal Basha’s abusive speech against ECPMF Senior legal advisor Flutura Kusari during a speech in the Kosovo parliament. Kusari found herself singled out in a personal attack aimed at silencing the prominent activist, and resulting in a wave of online abuse and sex-based […]

At least 12 journalists were killed in sub-Saharan Africa in 2023, according to monitoring by the International Press Institute (IPI)’s Africa programs. These incidents are among the nearly 600 cases of attacks on journalists and other threats to press freedom that IPI documented in the region last year.  Altogether, IPI documented 591 cases affecting journalists […]

The IPI global network strongly condemns the sentencing of journalist Heba Abu Taha to one year in prison for violating Jordan’s repressive 2023 cybercrime law. We urge the appellate court to overturn this unjust conviction and to expedite Abu Taha’s release. We also call upon the Jordanian government to immediately repeal Cybercrime Law No. 17 […]