The International Press Institute (IPI) welcomes the acquittal by the Pasig Regional Trial Court in the Philippines of IPI Executive Board member and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa on a tax evasion charge carrying a potential 10-year sentence. The court’s decision is the second decision this year acquitting Ressa of baseless tax evasion charges. […]

This text comes from IPI’s newsletter The Outlook. Click here to sign up to receive future editions direct to your inbox. This is The Outlook, IPI’s media innovation newsletter which brings you inspiration and ideas to borrow from independent media entrepreneurs around the world. The cracks have been visible for a while in media business models […]

In August 2023, IPI recorded 69 threats to press freedom in 12 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Nearly one-third of these occurred in Zimbabwe (17) and Gabon (5), where elections took place last month. In Gabon, the military seized power shortly after the vote. Overall, the highest number of incidents occurred in Nigeria, with 18. Multiple […]

We, the undersigned journalists, press freedom organizations, and unions, write this statement to denounce the war crimes committed by the Russian Federation against journalists in Ukraine and to call for immediate action to hold the perpetrators accountable. Deliberately targeting journalists, shelling their facilities, and engaging in arbitrary detentions and torture clearly violate international humanitarian law […]