IPI Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie opened the first of two sessions dedicated to oil wealth and poverty at IPI’s Oil Gas & Media Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan on Wednesday by noting that in many oil-rich countries populations remain devastatingly poor. “Why is no one reporting on what happens to the oil wealth?” Bethel McKenzie […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today kicked off its two-day “Oil, Gas and Media Conference” by calling on the Azerbaijan government to support a free media and to promote greater transparency in the oil and gas sector. More than 170 journalists from 27 countries gathered at Gulustan Palace to open the first-of-its-kind event, which began […]

Over the past 62 years, the International Press Institute has worked diligently to promote press freedom, dialogue among people and best practices among journalists. To that end, IPI and its Azerbaijan National Committee are delighted to host next week – in partnership with several media organizations and oil and gas industry experts and practitioners – […]

From Sep. 17-19, the International Press Institute (IPI), in partnership with the International Eurasia Press Fund, will host the international conference, “Oil, Gas and Media”, in Baku, Azerbaijan. The two-and-a-half-day conference, to be held at the Kempinski Hotel Badamdar, Baku, will bring together leading energy, business and financial journalists from around the world, along with […]