The world’s four special rapporteurs on freedom of expression have informed an international audience of media professionals of their grave concern about the increasing level of violence against journalists around the world. The “four musketeers of press freedom”, as Peter Preston, longtime columnist and former editor of Britain’s Guardian newspaper labeled them, spoke Sunday on […]

Read IPI’s Coverage of Panel Discussions and Other Events at the 61st Annual IPI World Congress in Trinidad and Tobago, June 23-26, 2012 SATURDAY, JUNE 23, 2012 9:30: Seminar on Covering Corruption SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2012 10:30: Opening Ceremony • Wesley Gibbings, president, Association of Caribbean MediaWorkers • Dawn Thomas, group CEO, One Caribbean Media […]

Sunday, 24 June, 2012 See also: Opens internal link in current windowwww.freemedia.at http://www.ipiworldcongress.com/ @IPI_WoCo2012 Excellencies … colleagues … friends … ladies and gentlemen … Welcome again to IPI’s annual World Congress. Today … I am highly concerned … and deeply saddened. It is my unfortunate task to inform you that this year is shaping up […]

The IPI World Congress 2012 opened in Port of Spain this morning with a chilling press freedom report: This year is shaping up to be the deadliest year for journalists since IPI began keeping records 15 years ago, IPI Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie said in her annual Director’s Report, which reviews press freedom developments. […]