Western Balkans: Transparency and scrutiny needed over acquisition of Adria News Network

Answers needed amidst pending regulatory scrutiny of takeover of major regional media network by Orbán-connected investment group

Analysis: Foreign agent laws are becoming the scourge of media freedom across Europe

IPI op-ed: Brussels needs to deliver a stronger, more decisive response to the spread of foreign agent laws across Europe, including in Georgia.

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Public broadcaster requires urgent action from Office of High Representative

BHRT faces serious financial challenges due to deep institutional crisis and debts, leaving national public broadcaster on the brink of collapse

EU Enlargement Package: Assessments must now translate into meaningful media freedom action

MFRR partners highlight key media freedom developments and concerns that should shape negotiations with EU Candidate Countries moving forward

IPI joins 9 organizations calling on Ursula von der Leyen to address media freedom in Western Balkans

Coalition of media freedom, freedom of expression and journalists’ organizations calls on the European Commission President to address the media freedom crisis during her visit to the Western Balkans this week

Brick by Brick: Reinventing news with stop-motion storytelling

How MStudio validated a LEGO-based animation concept for journalism—and what it revealed about innovation, audiences, and the future of media in the Balkans

Oslobođenje: Making history accessible with a user-friendly, monetizable digital archive

Bosnia and Herzegovina’s iconic independent outlet puts forward an exciting archive product

Bosnia: Adoption of ‘foreign agent’ legislation in Republika Srpska must be suspended

IPI joins media freedom partners in raising alarm over passing of foreign agent law

Urgent action is needed to address the financial deadlock facing Radio Television of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Media Advisory: IPI World Congress and Media Innovation Festival

BiH: Authorities must urgently break the deadlock facing public broadcasters and solve the financial problems

IPI joins the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partners in denouncing the irresponsible political management that led to direct violation of citizens’ right to freedom of information

New surge of DDoS attacks threatens media freedom in Europe

Attacks on Malta, Hungary, Bosnia, and Ukraine underscore growing threat to independent media

Report: Media freedom in survival mode Bosnia and Herzegovina

National media landscape characterized by a widening divergence in press freedom at the entity-level, with legal and political pressures mounting in Republika Srpska

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Republika Srpska president Dodik verbally attacks journalist

Incident warrants immediate apology from entity president

Analysis: Backsliding in Bosnia and Herzegovina as media freedom faces myriad challenges

As EU progress report on BiH looms, country faces widening press freedom levels in two entities

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Media freedom in survival mode

IPI joins MFRR partners in outling initial conclusions following three day press freedom mission

IPI announces 2024 World Congress and Media Innovation Festival in Sarajevo

Join us May 22 - 24, 2024 – Registration is open now!

IPI to join media freedom mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina 

MFRR mission to examine safety of journalists and recent recriminalisation of defamation in Republika Srpska

IJ4EU Interview: ‘Migration management is a massive euphemism’

IJ4EU grantee Lorenzo D'Agostino describes how his team brought an obscure organisation playing an outsize role in EU migration policy out of the shadows.

Bosnia and Herzegovina: Concern over move to re-criminalise defamation

Republika Srpska National Assembly urged to reject controversial amendments