Celebrating courage in journalism was the theme of the 2021 IPI World Congress award ceremony. At a special gathering at Vienna’s Haus der Musik, Belarusian editor and media manager Yuliya Slutskaya was honoured with the 2021 World Press Freedom Hero award, while Indian news site The Wire was recognized as the 2021 Free Media Pioneer. […]

Trust in media tends to peak during times of crisis. But how do public service media (PSM) maintain this degree of trust when society is not at crisis-point? Last week, the panel “Trust in Public Service Media in Shifting Times – Ways to Make It Better” at the International Press Institute (IPI)’s 2019 World Congress […]

Members of the International Press Institute (IPI) today urged Germany and other EU member states, as well as the EU itself, to embrace their role as defenders of human rights globally, including the rights to freedom of expression and the press, amid troubling times for media freedom. The members made the call in a resolution […]

H.E. Charles Taylor President of the Republic of Liberia Executive Mansion POB 10-90010 Capitol Hill 1000 Monrovia 10 Liberia Vienna, 17 May 2002 Your Excellency, The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, leading journalists and media executives, is deeply disturbed by the arrest of a journalist in the provincial city of Gbarnga, […]