I would like to thank the organizers of this event and the IPI National Committee in Norway for this opportunity to address the participants of the Norwegian Editors Forum and celebrate with you International World Press Freedom Day. Before presenting one by one what IPI has found to be the top ten threats to press […]

María Teresa Ronderos is the president of the Colombian Foundation for Freedom of the Press (FLIP) and a teacher at the Foundation for the Ibero American New Journalism (FNPI). She is also a consulting editor for Semana, a prestigious economic and political magazine, which reported on the illegal wire- tapping of politicians and journalists between […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today expressed alarm at the death of Salvadoran Channel 33 television cameraman Alfredo Hurtado, who was gunned down on a bus Tuesday evening in suburban San Salvador on his way to work. Authorities said two unknown young men boarded the bus, approached Hurtado and opened fire, leaving a dozen bullet […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today condemned arson threats against the Liberian Daily Observer that were made on 2 April. The publisher and the marketing manager of the Monrovia-based Daily Observer each recently received threatening phone calls from an unknown caller who said that Publisher and Managing Director Kenneth Y. Best’s house would be burnt […]