2015 marked what many thought would mark a monumental shift in Myanmar’s political landscape. The citizens of a country ruled for decades by the military headed for the polls in November in the first democratic election in decades. The media were nervously expecting long-overdue freedoms and rights, including being able to report critically without the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, publishers and leading journalists, today welcomed news that police in Slovaka have detained eight people in connection with the February murder of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová. However, IPI Deputy Director Scott Griffen emphaized that justice would only served when all those […]

Newsrooms in the United Kingdom have implemented different formal and informal peer support systems to help their journalists better cope with online harassment. The International Press Institute (IPI) is conducting a fact-finding mission to the UK this week as part of its OnTheLine project, which explores the measures media organizations have introduced in the newsroom […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined five other international press freedom organizations in urging Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov to ensure the physical safety of investigative journalists working in their country. The letter follows the arrest of journalists working for the Bulgarian investigative journalism website Bivol and the Romanian RISE Project earlier this month, […]