From smear campaigns and censorship to financial pressure and legal harassment, illiberal and authoritarian governments are squeezing independent media. How can they remain financially viable and able to do their jobs? The IPI World Congress and Media Innovation Festival panel “Modelling Journalism and the Business Under Pressure”, moderated by Dávid Tvrdoň, subscription growth and retention […]

The IPI global network calls for U.S. President Joe Biden to prioritize press freedom issues in India while he hosts Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi this week. The alarming deterioration of press freedom in India must be halted, and Biden must make tackling these issues at home and abroad a priority.  Modi is in the […]

With democracy under pressure globally, journalism faces growing hurdles to upholding the public’s access to independent news during pivotal election periods, editors from five countries — Turkey, Brazil, Kenya, Poland, and India — told the 2023 IPI World Congress. In media landscapes around the world, common themes emerged throughout the May 25 panel, titled “Journalism in […]

There is a light at the end of the tunnel after media capture, and different strategies are being developed at the political and economic level to help safeguard independent media from hostile takeovers, panellists agreed during a discussion at the IPI World Congress in Vienna on May 26. While undemocratic models of controlling media ecosystems […]