At an IPI event held yesterday at the International Press Institute’s headquarters in Vienna, Austria, Russian investigative journalist Galina Sidorova, who is IPI Vice-Chairwoman and the former editor-in-chief of the monthly Sovershenno Secretno, spoke about recent changes in the Russian media and the difficulties that Russian investigative journalists face today. “The media situation has worsened […]

The International Press Institute has joined thirty three members of the International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX) in calling for Ugandan President Yoweri Mousevani to ensure that press freedom is respected ahead of general elections, which are scheduled for Friday. The appeal, led by the Uganda-based Human Rights Network for Journalists and the Committee to […]

The Vienna-based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), strongly condemns Thursday’s bomb attack on the weekly Galeria in Sofia, Bulgaria. A bomb exploded around 5:40 a.m. in front of the headquarters shared by the weekly publication and the Millennium publishing house in the central part of Sofia. […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned last week’s murder of a television engineer during a violent attack on a TV station in Mexico. Rodolfo Ochoa, 27, was shot to death by masked intruders at dawn last Wednesday as he tried to telephone colleagues for help when the intruders burst into the transmission facilities of […]