The International Press Institute (IPI) will host an event on Sept. 13 in London to showcase and discuss the winning projects of the IPI News Innovation Contest, in the context of media innovation sustainability, in partnership with The Guardian newspaper and Journalism.co.uk (which runs the news:rewired conference), and with the support of Google Inc. Mark […]

The Parliament of Grenada has approved legislation that would punish the sending of “offensive” electronic communications with up to one year in prison, Grenadian media reported. The Electronic Crimes Act had been withdrawn in early July after the International Press Institute (IPI) and other groups expressed concern about a potential chilling effect on free speech in […]

The Freedom for Journalists Platform (GOP), an umbrella group representing local and national free expression groups in Turkey, has released a formal declaration calling on the country’s government to take major steps to reverse a sharp decline in the state of press freedom and freedom of expression in recent years. Members of the GOP, which […]

The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) today marked the 19th anniversary of Gambian President Yahya Jammeh’s rise to power with the launch of a campaign to highlight the continued deterioration of press freedom in the country. The MFWA’s “Gambia Day of Action” calls on Internet users worldwide to protest a “new draconian Internet law” […]