On International Day of Peace, September 21, the winners of the 2021 Global Peace Photo Award were announced in the Austrian Parliament in Vienna. The Peace Image of the Year prize of 10,000 euros went to American photographer Maggie Shannon for her photo reportage Extreme pain, but also extreme joy. IPI is a partner of […]

  Even after the pandemic brought a boom in readers seeking reliable information on the health crisis, how can news outlets keep audiences engaged? According to editors from India, the U.S., Austria, and the Philippines speaking at the IPI World Congress panel on audience engagement on September 17, top editors agreed keeping an audience is, […]

  During the closing discussion at IPI’s World Congress on Friday, September 17, panelists agreed that in today’s world, newsrooms need to seek innovative ways to fund their work. The session “How fund the journalism we need” was organized in partnership with Vienna’s Presseclub Concordia. Anita Zielina, director of news innovation and leadership at the […]

Controversial plans floated by the governing Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) that would impose tough criminal penalties on journalists for quoting from leaked documents should be scrapped immediately, the Vienna-based International Press institute (IPI) said today. IPI, a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, said that if passed, the new […]