The International Press Institute (IPI) has joined 23 other international press freedom and human rights organizations in expressing concern about the unstable situation for journalists and media outlets in Kyrgyzstan and the press freedom restrictions imposed on print, broadcast and online media outlets, which prevent them from providing coverage of events in the country. Over […]

IPI Director David Dadge is speaking today at an event in Oviedo, Spain, hosted by the Press Association of Asturias in recognition of World Press Freedom Day and the Association’s 100th anniversary. The group consists of 300 journalists from the region of Asturias. Mr. Dadge’s speech, entitled “Why Information wants to be Free” is reproduced below. Ladies […]

A journalist in Lagos State, Nigeria, was gunned down on Saturday in an unexplained killing. Edo Sule Ugbagwu, 42, worked as the judiciary correspondent for the Mushin-based newspaper, the Nation. Ugbagwu was shot dead by two gunmen who came to his home around 7pm on 24 April. The Nation’s own report about the murder says he had just […]

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), a network of editors, media executives and leading journalists from South East and Central Europe and an affiliate of the International Press Institute (IPI), condemns a court decision to reject charges against six people who allegedly threatened to murder Serbian journalist Brankica Stankovic – a reporter for B92 TV programme […]