The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the killing of a Mexican photojournalist who appeared to have been tortured before being shot in the head in Mexico City. Ruben Espinosa, a photojournalist from the Gulf Coast state Veracruz, was found late on Friday with severe injuries to his face. The journalist fled Xalapa, capital of […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) was troubled to learn of the deaths of two journalists in Mexico and urged the country’s federal government to conduct impartial and thorough investigations in both cases. Gunmen shot radio broadcaster Filadelfo Sánchez Sarmiento on Thursday morning in Miahuatlán de Porfirio Díaz, a town in the southern state of Oaxaca. […]

The killing of yet another journalist calls attention to Mexico’s alarming state of press freedom, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. Reporter and radio presenter Armando Saldaña Morales, 53 was found dead near the bank of a stream in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca on May 4. According to local newspapers, he was […]

Know a journalist whose bravery deserves to be honoured? Or an innovative news outlet that is revolutionizing the public’s access to the news? The International Press Institute (IPI) and International Media Support (IMS) are now welcoming nominations for the 2021 IPI World Press Freedom Hero Award and the IPI-IMS Free Media Pioneer Award! IPI’s World […]