“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 […]

The IPI global network today expressed deep concern over the passing by the Polish parliament of an amendment to broadcast media law which threatens the independence of the country’s largest private television broadcaster, TVN. IPI urges stronger action by the U.S and European Commission to defend media freedom. On August 11, lawmakers in the Sejm, […]

The IPI global network today joined a coalition of other press freedom and journalism organizations in urgently calling on members of the Sejm, the lower house of Poland’s legislature, to oppose a draft bill that would dramatically accelerate media capture in Poland. If passed, the law would force the U.S. media conglomerate Discovery to sell […]

The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) today calls for swift and robust action by the European Union and U.S. to defend media freedom in Poland and counter the serious attack on the independence of the country’s largest private television channel, TVN, by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party. Our organisations believe that the so-called […]