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Tools and strategies for online moderators to address abuse on social media

The International Press Institute (IPI) has published a new resource for online moderators of news outlets to address abuse that takes place on social media. The tools and strategies for managing debate on Facebook and Twitter are part of IPI’s Newsrooms Ontheline platform, which collects best practices for countering online harassment against journalists. Newsrooms worldwide […]

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Turkey: Coalition intervenes at ECtHR to support Kurdish journalist’s case

A coalition of 10 international press freedom and journalism organizations including the International Press Institute (IPI) has intervened at the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in support of a case brought by İdris Sayılğan, a Turkish-Kurdish journalist jailed since 2016 on baseless anti-terror charges. The intervention focuses on the crucial question of domestic remedy, which […]

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Burundi holds four journalists without charges

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today called on authorities in Burundi to immediately release four journalists and a driver from the privately owned Iwacu news outlet who have been held without charge for two days. The arrests are the latest illustration of […]

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IPI urges lifting of ban on websites in Palestine

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today condemned the blocking of 59 websites, including news portals, by a court of the Palestinian Authority and called for the restrictions to be lifted immediately. Last week a court in Ramallah ordered the blocking of websites […]

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