Rodney Pinder is the director of International News Safety Institute (INSI), an independent, non-profit organization aimed at ensuring the safety of journalists. Pinder is a former senior foreign correspondent and news executive for Thomson Reuters. IPI: INSI has been described as a unique organization. What makes it different from other press freedom organizations such as […]

Cornelia Vospernik is the former Beijing Bureau Chief of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) and current Head of News, of ORF Eins. She began her career freelancing for a local ORF studio in the Austrian province of Carinthia at the age of 15. From 2000 to 2002, she was the ORF London bureau chief, and […]

The members of the International Press Institute, meeting at the 60th annual IPI General Assembly at the IPI World Congress 2011 in Taipei, Taiwan, on 26 September 2011, unanimously passed  seven resolutions condemning serious violations of press freedom around the world. Focal points of the resolutions were: -A request for the repeal of criminal defamation […]

Journalist Li Xiang, 30, of Luoyang Television Station in Henan province was found stabbed to death on Monday 19 September, online news reports say. Li had been stabbed more than ten times, and his computer bag was missing from the scene of the crime, reports say. It is believed that the reporter had been investigating […]