On International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, the Executive Board of the International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, gathered in Bratislava, Slovakia to demand justice for Ján Kuciak and all other murdered journalists around the world. Led by Executive Board Chair […]

Week after week, Slovak people have taken part in large protests since the murders of investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his partner, archaeologist Martina Kušnírová, in February. Kuciak’s murder comes only five months after Daphne Caruana Galizia, a Maltese investigative journalist, was killed in a car bombing. The murders raise serious concerns about press freedom […]

“What I want the world to remember is to give some sort of recognition to the bravery and courage of those journalists who go to remote parts of Afghanistan to find the truth and report it to the public,” Najib Sharifi, director of the Afghan Journalists Safety Committee (AJSC), said as he accepted the IPI-IMS Free […]

At the International Press Institute (IPI)’s 2017 World Congress last month in Hamburg, Paul Nemitz, principal advisor to the European Commission’s Director General for Justice and Consumer Protection, highlighted three challenges to media freedom in Europe: Government pressure on critical journalists, media concentration, and the impact technology companies have on the revenue models of traditional media. “If […]