The International Press Institute (IPI) on Wednesday expressed concern after the leader of the British Labour Party, Ed Miliband, argued yesterday that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation should be forced to sell one of its newspapers. Miliband told the Leveson inquiry set up to examine media ethics following the explosion of last year’s phone-hacking scandal that […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today announced the first three winners in its News Innovation Contest. The three winning projects, which will receive more than $600,000 in total, operate across Mali, Turkey, France, the Netherlands and the UK. The winners were chosen from the more than 300 applications received since February of this year. The […]

The members of the International Press Institute, meeting at the 60th annual IPI General Assembly at the IPI World Congress 2011 in Taipei, Taiwan, on 26 September 2011, unanimously passed  seven resolutions condemning serious violations of press freedom around the world. Focal points of the resolutions were: -A request for the repeal of criminal defamation […]

Last week IPI released a statement about an attempt – made under the Official Secrets Act – to compel the Guardian newspaper to reveal a confidential source from its coverage of the News Of The World hacking scandal. The newspaper said Scotland Yard applied for a production order this month “in order to seek evidence […]