“Ten years ago, the Russian segment of the World Wide Web, ru.net, was the most free place in the world for independent journalism and social media,” Galina Timchenko, editor-in-chief of Riga-based Russian-language online newspaper Meduza, said during a panel titled “Digital Journalism – Is the Internet Really a Safer Place?” at the International Press Institute […]

Ruşen Çakır, founder of Turkey’s Medyascope.tv, delivered the following remarks at a gala dinner and awards ceremony at the International Press Institute (IPI)’s 2016 World Congress in Doha, Qatar on March 19, 2016. In my country, Turkey, the words “media” and “journalism” have immediate negative connotations: fired, prosecuted and imprisoned journalists; government-seized newspapers and TV […]

Engaging in journalism in Iran can be like “walking on a minefield”, Iranian journalist, academic, writer and political analyst Ahmad Zeidabadi said in a statement delivered on his behalf at a ceremony at the 2016 International Press Institute (IPI) World Congress in Doha, where he was honoured in absentia as IPI’s 68th World Press Freedom […]

Does a former auto repair shop in Istanbul hold one of the keys to overcoming years of increasing government pressure on media in Turkey and unlocking press freedom? Veteran Turkish journalist Ruşen Çakır seems to think so. Last fall he and his colleagues turned the former shop into a makeshift studio for Medyascope.tv, an independent […]