The International Press Institute (IPI) today launched a study on the future of quality journalism in Turkey at the Journalists’ Union of Turkey’s (TGS) Press Academy in Istanbul. The study, entitled “‘It Won’t Always Be Like This’: How to Prepare Turkey’s Journalists for a Freer Era”, is based on more than 100 interviews with journalism students, local […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today called on Turkey to quickly pass a promised judicial reform package that would see journalists who were jailed as part of the Cumhuriyet trial freed pending further appeal.

Cyril Almeida, an editor and columnist at Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper and the International Press Institute (IPI)’s 71st World Press Freedom Hero, faces treason charges following his tenacious coverage of the Pakistan state’s patronage of militant groups. In Pakistan, treason is a capital offence. There is only one punishment for the charges against Almeida: death by hanging. […]

Today the world marks the 10-year anniversary of the single deadliest attack on the media in modern times. On November 23, 2009, 32 journalists along with 26 civilians were kidnapped from their convoy by armed gunmen and brutally murdered in the Philippine province of Maguindanao. Some were beheaded, female reporters were raped, and all their […]