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2013: A look back at journalists in the dock

Freedom of the press came under threat in 2013 in ways – and in some countries – that would have seemed inconceivable when the year began. As the International Press Institute (IPI) today launches its “World Press Freedom Review”, highlighting press freedom violations over the past two years, one sobering development in 2013 was the […]

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IPI’s News Innovation Platform to host Digital Media Event in Johannesburg

The International Press Institute (IPI)’s News Innovation Platform (IPI-NIP) will host a one-day symposium on digital media, with a focus on sustainability, on Jan. 20, 2014 in Johannesburg, South Africa. The event, titled “ChallengeSSS of the New Age” will consist of three components: “Sustainability”, “Security” and “Self-Regulation”. “Sustainability” will feature an interview with Burt Herman, co-founder […]

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Groups: UK response to surveillance revelations threatens human rights

The International Press Institute (IPI) yesterday joined a coalition of 70 organisations to warn British Prime Minister David Cameron that his “government’s response to the revelations of mass surveillance of digital communications is eroding fundamental human rights in the country”. The groups, hailing from 40 countries, told Cameron in a letter published yesterday in The […]

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Ending Internet restrictions in Jordan

The International Press Institute (IPI) and 21 other media and human rights organisations urged the king of Jordan to reconsider restrictions placed on Internet news sites, nearly five months after regulators blocked some 300 sites under a new licensing provision of the Press and Publications Law. In the letter to King Abdullah II, the organisations […]

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