This piece is published in collaboration with Libertatea as part of a content series on threats to independent media in Central Europe. Read more. On December 2, 2020, Bucharest’s District 4 mayor Daniel Băluță, a former dentist who was elected to office in 2016, sued two investigative journalists from the Romanian daily newspaper Libertatea, as well as the […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined several media freedom and freedom of expression groups in writing to top Romanian politicians and officials over delays in the investigation into the publication of Romanian journalist Emilia Șercan’s stolen photos and the alleged leak of key elements of the initial investigation into the theft. It follows a […]

Editor’s note: This op/ed is being jointly published by IPI and a network of independent media outlets in Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia to mark World Press Freedom Day 2022. Russian President Vladimir Putin has shown us how far the dissolution of democratic institutions and the suffocation of the free […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joins the partner organisations of the Council of Europe’s Platform to Promote the Protection of Journalism and Safety of Journalists in publishing the 2022 annual report, which identifies growing challenges for media freedom across the region. While European countries still pack the first ranks in press freedom indexes, the […]