The members of the independent IJ4EU jury, led by Süddeutsche Zeitung Editor-in-Chief Wolfgang Krach, today called on Bulgarian authorities to open a “comprehensive and transparent” investigation into the murder of journalist Victoria Marinova. Marinova’s last report for the broadcaster TVN, which aired on September 30, focused on revelations of corruption involving EU funds worth hundreds […]

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, publishers and leading journalists, today welcomed news that police in Slovaka have detained eight people in connection with the February murder of journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová. However, IPI Deputy Director Scott Griffen emphaized that justice would only served when all those […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined five other international press freedom organizations in urging Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov to ensure the physical safety of investigative journalists working in their country. The letter follows the arrest of journalists working for the Bulgarian investigative journalism website Bivol and the Romanian RISE Project earlier this month, […]

This address was delivered on the occasion of the 2018 Alfred Fried Photography Award ceremony on September 20, 2018. In a small ethnic Hungarian village in the late seventies my grand auntie used to tell us local folk tales about people who carried some heavy curse, witnessed great dramas or had lost their sanity. Sometimes, […]