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 […]

“What is amazing is that I am forced to feel brave to do my job here, at my house,” Spanish journalist Mayte Carrasco, who has covered major conflicts worldwide over the past eight years, says.

She made that statement within hours after she received more than 100 insulting and threatening messages through Twitter following the primetime, Jan. 20 broadcast of a documentary about Islamic fundamentalism that included comments by Carrasco.