This week’s criminal conviction of IPI Executive Board member Maria Ressa of the Philippines online news site Rappler and former Rappler writer Reynaldo Santos Jr threatens to see journalists jailed while chilling new voices around the region. Across the Asia-Pacific region, new digital media like Rappler have been bringing a critical overlay of accountability journalism. […]

Read in English Die Verurteilung von Journalistin und IPI-Vorstandsmitglied Maria Ressa ist höchst bedauerlich und stellt einen traurigen Tag für die Pressefreiheit auf den Philippinen dar, so das Internationale Presse Institut (IPI). Am Montag verurteilte ein regionales Prozessgericht in Manila, Ressa, CEO der Nachrichtenwebsite Rappler und den ehemaligen Rappler-Journalist Reynaldo Santos Jr. wegen Cyber-Verleumdung. Die […]

International Press Institute (IPI) Executive Board member Maria Ressa, a prominent Philippine journalist and the founder of media outlet Rappler, faces a verdict in a politically motivated “cyber-libel” trial on June 15. She faces up to seven years in prison in the case. “Whatever it is you are most afraid of, you have to touch […]

Gathered in Vienna for their semi-annual meeting, the Executive Board members of the International Press Institute (IPI) – 24 leading editors and media executives from 20 countries – jointly called on the Philippine authorities to end their campaign of harassment and intimidation of fellow Board member Maria Ressa. Ressa faces a verdict on June 15* in […]