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Hungary: Foreign funding bill poses most serious threat to independent media in years

Press Freedom
IPI and media freedom partners call for urgent EU measures to respond to latest attack on press freedom and democracy
Europe: Hungary

France: Call to end police violence after new attacks on journalists at May Day protest

Journalist Safety
Media freedom groups highlight allegations of deliberate police violence against media workers
Europe: France

Untold threats against environmental journalists in Italy revealed in new case study

Climate JournalismDisinformation
New case study reveals, for the first time, statistical data on attacks against environmental journalists in the country, documenting 114 cases between 2011 and 2025—yet these cases likely represent only a fraction of the real number.
Europe: Italy

MFRR in focus: The state of Poland’s public service media

Media Capture
Europe: Poland

Operation Overload: Draining fact-checkers’ resources

Disinformation
Episode 4 of the podcast series Decoding Disinformation delves into CheckFirst's investigation of the so-called 'Operation Overload'
Europe: Finland

Belarus: will the tide ever turn on Lukashenko and the regime’s repression?

Press Freedom
Four years after mass protests, attacks on media and civil society continue in atmosphere of near-total oblivion
Europe: Belarus, Poland

A perfect storm: Climate journalism under attack in Croatia

Climate JournalismDisinformation
Episode 3 of podcast series Decoding Disinformation looks into recent online and physical attacks against "Climate Portal" in Croatia
05.05.2025 - 05.05.2025

Autocrats Unleashed: Defending Free Journalism Amid Rising Authoritarianism and Declining Accountability

Join IPI for a parallel event in Brussels, held alongside World Press Freedom Day
Europe: Georgia, Hungary, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey
21.02.2025

Ukraine: Three Years of Resistance

Russia-Ukraine War
Public discussion to be co-hosted by IPI and the Institute of Mass Information (IMI)
Ukraine
22.01.2025

Virtual Newsroom Visit to CLIP, Latin America

Digital TransitionInvestigative journalismMedia InnovationMedia sustainability
El Clip presents NINA, a collaborative database for cross-border investigations
Americas: Costa Rica
25.04.2025
case

Konstantin Berezin designated as a “foreign agent”

Russia-Ukraine War
Censorship and regulation: Publication ban, take-down order or forced deletion, fine, administrative action
Europe: Russia
22.04.2025
case

Russian drone strike damages Poltavska Khvylya office

Russia-Ukraine War
Verbal, online or physical attack: Attack on media infrastructure/offices
Europe: Ukraine
18.04.2025
cases

Irina Babloyan and Vladislav Shiryayev designated as “foreign agents”

Russia-Ukraine War
Censorship and regulation: Publication ban, take-down order or forced deletion, fine, administrative action
Europe: Russia