Former International Press Institute (IPI) Executive Board Member Piotr Stasinski, deputy editor-in-chief of the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, today joined editors around the world in condemning an article in Britain’s Daily Mail slamming The Guardian as “The paper that helps Britain’s enemies”. The article, which appeared yesterday in The Daily Mail, accused The Guardian of […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) will host an event on Sept. 13 in London to showcase and discuss the winning projects of the IPI News Innovation Contest, in the context of media innovation sustainability, in partnership with The Guardian newspaper and Journalism.co.uk (which runs the news:rewired conference), and with the support of Google Inc. Mark […]

The report on the public inquiry into the practices of UK newspapers led by Lord Justice Leveson was released yesterday, amid ardent criticism of what some observers interpreted as a door-opener for stricter, statutory regulation of the press. In a speech accompanying his presentation of the report, Leveson noted that “the press, operating freely and […]

A Belfast-based journalist received a death threat over the telephone on Saturday, reportedly from a terror unit of the Ulster Defence Association (UDA), a paramilitary group. The name of the journalist is not being revealed in line with a policy of the UK National Union of Journalists (NUJ) to protect individuals under threat. According to […]