The need to combat impunity and the importance of media self-regulation were the guiding themes in a pair of resolutions approved this weekend by the Association of Caribbean MediaWorkers (ACM), an IPI strategic partner. Gathered in Trinidad and Tobago for the organisation’s biennial General Assembly, ACM members representing 11 countries called on regional governments to […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) and its affiliate, the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), today reiterated their call for Turkish authorities to identify and hold accountable police officers and others responsible for the brutal treatment of journalists covering demonstrations that gripped the country this year. “Numerous journalists reported that elements of the security forces […]

Following lengthy efforts to establish laws on public broadcasting, media regulation and freedom of information in South Sudan, a package of media legislation is now awaiting approval by President Salva Kiir. Some local media organisations see the measures as a step in the right. In a review carried out by the International Press Institute (IPI) […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed dismay at reports of the abduction of Spanish journalist Marc Marginedas in Syria and demanded his immediate release. Marginedas, a special correspondent in Syria for the Barcelona-based newspaper El Periodico de Catalunya, went missing on Sept. 4. Yesterday, the online edition of El Periodico announced that the journalist […]