Read the full report here. Lehdistötiedote. The International Press Institute (IPI), a Vienna-based global press freedom organization, today launched a new report on online abuse against journalists in Finland. The report emphasizes that while authorities are aware of this growing phenomenon, journalists still lack confidence in efforts to investigate threats against them. IPI conducted a […]

El Instituto Internacional de la Prensa (IPI, por sus siglas en inglés) y la Plataforma en Defensa de la Libertad de Información (PDLI) alertan del aumento del acoso y amenazas online contra periodistas en España. El fenómeno afecta especialmente a las mujeres periodistas por la intensidad de los insultos y las campañas de coacción de […]

Death and rape threats, accusations of treason, disfiguring memes, bots and automated agents, “black” public relation firms and hacking – these are only some of the features of state-sponsored trolling that have been used by governments around the world in recent years to attack journalists and other critics online. This digital-age phenomenon was investigated in […]

On Wednesday June 6, as part of a weeklong visit to Finland focused on the issue of online harassment of journalists, IPI visited three newsrooms in the southwestern city of Turku, the country’s oldest city and former capital. IPI went to Turku to learn how online harassment affects journalists outside Europe’s large capital cities, and […]