On the occasion of 2020 World Press Freedom Day, the partners of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) hosted a virtual discussion on how to counter the abusive strategies used by governments to limit press freedom in the current Coronavirus pandemic. Speakers presented case studies of European countries where governments have taken emergency measures or issued […]

To mark International Human Rights Day, IPI will co-host the Austrian premiere of Juliana Fanjul’s documentary Radio Silence on Dec. 10 at 20:15 at Vienna’s Topkino. IPI is partnering with This Human World (THW) film festival for the fifth consecutive year. Synopsis: After revealing a corruption case within the Mexican government, the well-known journalist Carmen Aristegui gets fired from the popular radio […]

• Still over 120 journalists in jail  in Turkey • Over 100 terror-related investigations opened since Turkey’s incursion into Syria • Fair trial principles routinely breached • New efforts to stifle online media • Is the judicial reform strategy a sham or an opportunity? • How should the EU respond? The International Press Institute (IPI) […]

Foreign and international editors from leading news agencies and print, broadcast and online news media organizations in the U.S. and Canada will gather on November 15, 2019, at the offices of The Associated Press headquarters in New York for a meeting of the International Press Institute (IPI) Foreign Editors’ Circle. The meeting is being organized […]