The IPI global network today joins its Czech National Committee and the Endowment Fund for Independent Journalism (NFNZ) in condemning the discriminatory exclusion of certain foreign and domestic journalists from a joint press conference held by the prime ministers of Hungary and the Czech Republic. On Wednesday, September 29, journalists from various European and Czech […]

  “You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to know that if you control the media, you control public opinion”, Bulgarian freelance journalist Boryana Dzhambazova said during the IPI World Congress panel on media capture in Central Europe on September 17. In several countries in the region, governments have taken effective control over the […]

  You’re under attack from the government, but the business has to go on. How does that work? At the 2021 #IPIWoCo, four editors from Turkey, Hungary, India, and Nigeria discussed modelling the business under repression. Running a critical and well-functioning news outlet costs money, but installing and maintaining a successful business model can be […]

As the European Parliament today debates the Pegasus spyware scandal, the undersigned partners of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) call for an immediate investigation into the alleged use of the spyware against journalists by Hungarian authorities and urge the strong implementation of new EU rules on the export of cyber-surveillance technology around the world. […]