Titled “Documenting Change / Empowering Media”, next year’s IPI World Congress in Amman, Jordan is a must for anyone who cares about press freedom. The two and a half day event will examine the many challenges, concerns and opportunities facing journalists in a rapidly changing media landscape – not only in the Arab world, but […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) is deeply concerned for the well-being of jailed Cuban journalist Calixto Ramón Martínez, who has been on a hunger strike since Nov. 10 to protest prison conditions. In a video statement released yesterday, Hablemos Press, the Havana-based independent news agency for which Martínez was a correspondent, said that the journalist […]

The South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), has named Turkish cameraman Cüneyt Ünal and his missing colleague, Jordanian reporter of Palestinian origin Bashar Fahmi Kaddumi, the winners of the 2012 SEEMO Human Rights Award. The award is scheduled to be presented during a ceremony on Dec. […]

The Argentine government confirmed yesterday that it would proceed on Friday, Dec. 7 — or “7D” as it has become known in the press — with the forcible breakup of media companies, including Grupo Clarín, that are in violation of “anti-monopoly” measures included in the country’s new media law. “Until midnight on Friday, December 7, […]