Amidst heavy topics such as Taiwan-China cross-strait relations and poverty in North Korea, “Innovations in Political Cartooning” seemed comparatively lighthearted. It was, in fact, a discussion of blatant infringements of free speech and the role of static images in the rapidly evolving electronic media. “With newspapers dropping like flies, cartoonists are often the first ones […]

The police in Anambra State, Nigeria, must ensure that journalist Ikechukwu Udendu’s murderers are brought to justice, the International Press Institute (IPI) said on Friday. Ikechukwu Udendu, who publishes and edits a monthly newspaper, Anambra News, was killed on Saturday morning after he left his home in Ogidi to visit the paper’s printing house in […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, condemns the legal harassment of journalists and media outlets in connection with ongoing mass protests by farmers in India, as well as wider attempts to stifle the free flow of information in the country. Since November 2020, farmers […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today urged authorities to conduct a swift investigation into the death of a journalist in Tongapal, the tribal Sukma district in the South Bastar area of Chhattisgarh, in central India. Nemi Chand Jain, a 45-year-old journalist based in Tongapal, was found dead on Wednesday with his throat slit. His body […]