The first interactive workshop of the International Press Institute (IPI)’s 2016 World Congress, Media “Team Security – Managing the Terrorism Threat”, trained journalists on media operations in high-risk areas to help them develop the basic understanding of a contingency plan. Rupert Reid, managing director of the UK-based security consulting company Security Exchange Ltd, led the […]

“Ten years ago, the Russian segment of the World Wide Web, ru.net, was the most free place in the world for independent journalism and social media,” Galina Timchenko, editor-in-chief of Riga-based Russian-language online newspaper Meduza, said during a panel titled “Digital Journalism – Is the Internet Really a Safer Place?” at the International Press Institute […]

The difference between an activist and a journalist is not a clear line, though it should be, Wahyu Dhyatmika, managing editor at Tempo.co, an Indonesian news website, said during Sunday morning’s International Press Institute (IPI) panel “How to Cover Violent Extremism and Survive”. Focusing on the various responsibilities that journalists have while reporting in conflict […]

The first session of the International Press Institute (IPI)’s 2016 World Congress in Doha, “Covering the Arab World: Documenting Change”, explored the dangers that journalists currently face while reporting in conflict zones and amid an overall lack of press freedom in the Arab region. Keynote speaker Tawakkol Karman, a journalist and a Nobel Prize laureate […]