Turkish journalists marked World Press Freedom Day on Sunday with a march calling for people to “stand up for journalism”, saying that the fight for press freedom is “the struggle of every citizen that misses a free and democratic Turkey”. “[F]reedom is the oxygen of journalism, and free journalism is the assurance of democracy”, prominent […]

Myanmar journalist Soe Yarzar Tun stood up from the crowd wearing a mask and holding a placard reading “Stop beating, arresting, imprisoning journalists”, interrupting Myanmar Information Minister Ye Htut as he spoke. It was March 27 – just one month ago – and the information minister was speaking at the first day of the International […]

Communicating with encrypted channels carries a number of benefits, such as “the feeling that you have a private space [which] means that you can communicate freer, there is more democracy in your thoughts and in your mind”.  That is one the main forces that multimedia journalist Christian Payne says drove him to adopt encryption in […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) this week remembered former IPI Executive Board Chair David Laventhol, who died on April 8 at his home in New York due to complications from Parkinson’s disease. Laventhol, 81, was a long-time IPI member whose career in journalism included high-profile roles as assistant managing editor of The Washington Post, president […]