Independent online news portal Doha News has blasted the Qatari government’s ongoing block of the website in the country, saying that the nearly-three-month-old effort amounted to censorship. The country’s two telecommunications providers, Ooredoo and Vodafone, have blocked access to Doha News since Nov. 30 and the site is only accessibly through a Virtual Private Network […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined partner organisations in the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) in writing to the Director and Deputy Director of the Lithuanian State Data Protection Inspectorate (SDPI) to express concern at its attempted obstruction of investigative project “Karštos Pėdos” (“Hot Feet”)’s journalistic activity. ——————————- 27 January 2022 Dear Director Andrijauskas, […]

On the opening day of the International Press Institute (IPI)’s 2019 World Congress in Geneva, Switzerland, leading editors called for greater efforts to expose and combat targeted online smear campaigns against journalists. Speaking at the World Congress’s Town Hall Meeting, Zaffar Abbas, editor of the Pakistani daily Dawn, said state and non-state actors were increasingly […]

In the throes of the U.S. financial crisis in early 2009, Fortune Magazine Asia Editor William Bill Powell wrote a cover story called, “Is China Sinking?” “That story was 180 degrees wrong, completely wrong,” Powell said on Saturday, addressing a financial reporting workshop marking the kick-off of the International Press Institute’s 2011 World Congress in […]