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 […]

Despite a lack of aggregated data and specific studies on the issue, experts say there is enough evidence to suggest that the online harassment of journalists, including threats of violence, has a serious psychological impact that may result in self-censorship. The threats that journalists must confront on a daily basis are many. In its pioneering […]

“A really big question online is, what’s the responsibility of the business sector, the corporate actors? Because when we are talking about online speech and harassment, most of it happens in places owned by private actors, they are not government. That’s actually is a very risky area right now: What responsibilities do we put on […]