“Three-quarters of a year ago we issued a directive to report everything that is even remotely illegal,” Stefan Kaltenbrunner, editor-in-chief of Austrian daily Kurier, said in an interview with IPI when asked how his newspaper counters verbal abuse and threats against its journalists. He confirmed that Kurier had already reported 40 to 50 comments to […]

Journalist Ingrid Brodnig of Austria’s Profil recently told the International Press Institute (IPI) that right-wing politicians in her country have turned to the online sphere to try to control the political narrative following claims of disparagement by the so-called “Lügenpresse” (“lying press”). Brodnig, who authored the book “Hass im Netz” (“Online Hate”), said that the […]

Following its launch last week of the first database on online harassment against journalists, the International Press Institute (IPI) today published “Voices against Online Harassment”, a series of video interviews with journalists targeted by abuse and threats online, and with experts on the matter. “The goal of this project is to raise awareness on an […]

Read this story in English. Si bien todavía resta más de 6 meses para que se inicie la campaña electoral para elegir un nuevo presidente de la República de Ecuador, el esfuerzo por controlar el discurso político ya hace algún tiempo que ha comenzado. Una parte de esta batalla se ha trasladado a las redes […]