Excessive state regulation established by Ecuador’s newly passed media law poses a serious and immediate threat to independent journalism, the International Press Institute (IPI) stated in a special report released today. The report, a comprehensive review of press freedom developments in Ecuador since IPI’s visit to the country in May 2012, concludes that the situation […]

Ahead of World Press Freedom Day, celebrated every year on May 3, the International Press Institute (IPI) announced the winners of its 2013 World Press Freedom Hero and Free Media Pioneer Awards. Two journalists – American reporter Marie Colvin and Japanese photojournalist Mika Yamamoto – are the posthumous recipients of IPI’s 2013 World Press Freedom […]

As if it were not enough that journalists covering the Syrian conflict have been targeted for kidnap or attack, killed by bombs and threatened with their lives, their enemies have a new tactic: Using social media to put inflammatory words in their mouths and a price on their heads. On March 31, Kuwaiti Fahim Saqr, […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned the abduction of four Italian journalists in Syria and demanded their immediate release, as well as the release of three other journalists currently believed to be detained in Syria. On Friday, Italy’s Foreign Ministry confirmed that four Italian journalists had been abducted during the previous night in northern […]