Read this feature in English Desde que la Ley de Seguridad Ciudadana, conocida como la “Ley Mordaza”, entrara en vigor el pasado 30 de junio, han proliferado las organizaciones que han denunciado ante distintos estamentos judiciales su inconstitucionalidad, para unos, o la vulneración de derechos humanos fundamentales en algunos de sus artículos, para otros. A […]

Nearly two years have passed since Jordanian authorities blocked over 200 websites for failing to obtain a license in accordance with a then-recent amendment to the country’s Press and Publications Law. The amendment requires online news sites to be licensed to operate as such and to have an editor affiliated with the Jordan Press Association, […]

Media entrepreneurs, researchers, funders and policymakers came together last week at the Journalism Entrepreneurship Summit at the Google Campus in London. The Feb. 27 event was organised by the MADE project creator and UCLan professor François Nel, with the support of Talk About Local and the International Press Institute (IPI). The one-day, digital media ride […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today named as its 67th World Press Freedom Hero prominent Syrian lawyer and human rights defender Mazen Darwish, who has advocated for media freedom in his country for more than 10 years, and for the last three from behind bars. IPI also announced Mexican journalists’ network Periodistas de a Pie […]