Zur deutschen Version IPI: IPI is the only press freedom organisation with a national committee structure. In January you will take over as head of the IPI Austria National Committee.  What are the advantages of this system, and what is the role that you see a revitalized Austrian committee playing – in Austria and around the […]

Read in English In Jänner 2011 wird Dr Sperl den Post als neuer Vorsitzender des österreichischen IPI Komitees übernhemen. Dr. Sperl war bis 2007 Chefredakteur bei österreichischen Qualitätszeitung Der Standard.  IPI: IPI ist die einzige Pressefreiheitsorganisation mit Nationalkomitees. Ab Jänner werden Sie Vorsitzender des österreichischen IPI Komitees. Was sind die Vorteile dieses Systems, und welche […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today announced that Dr. Gerfried Sperl, former editor-in-chief of Der Standard newspaper, has been named chairperson of the IPI Austrian National Committee, a role he will take up beginning in January 2011. Dr. Sperl began his career as a reporter in 1969 at the Kleine Zeitung. In 1982, he was […]

The issue of editorial confidentiality has been dominating media discussions in recent days in Austria, after the Vienna Higher Regional Court (OLG) ordered Austrian Public Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) to release the unedited tapes of an episode of a documentary series called “Am Schauplatz” (“On the scene”) that was filmed in March this year. The documentary […]