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| Company type | Non-profit organization |
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| Industry | Journalism,human rights,social justice |
| Founded | October 1950; 75 years ago (1950-10) |
| Headquarters | Vienna ,Austria |
| Website | ipi |
International Press Institute (IPI) is a global organisation dedicated to the promotion and protection ofpress freedom and the improvement ofjournalism practices. The institution was founded by 34 editors from 15 countries atColumbia University in October, 1950.[1]
IPI has a membership category: "IPI Leading Journalists", which is open to heads of media departments, bureau chiefs and media correspondents.
IPI is a member of theInternational Freedom of Expression Exchange, a global network of non-governmental organisations that monitors press freedom and free expression violations worldwide.
In October 2006, theNational Television Academy (NTA) honored IPI with an InternationalEmmy Award for its press freedom work.
IPI monitors press freedom around the world and responds to threats and attacks on journalists and media outlets by sending protest letters to governments and inter-governmental organisations. These threats are often brought to IPI's attention by its members, many of whom experience such difficulties first-hand while carrying out their profession.
IPI leads missions to countries where press freedom is under threat, meeting with government officials, diplomats, journalists and non-governmental organisations, and providing legal representation and support in court cases.
IPI undertakes extensive research on issues relevant to the media and circulates severalpublications on press freedom, including the quarterly magazineIPI Global Journalist. IPI regularly scrutinises new media laws and provides governments with recommendations on how to bring their legislation in line with internationally accepted standards on freedom of expression. IPI also monitors journalists killed worldwide. Since 1997, it has kept aDeath Watch of media casualties.
Each year, IPI publishes an authoritative report on media violations around the world:The World Press Freedom Review.
In 2000, on the occasion of its 50th anniversary, IPI named 50 journalists "World Press Freedom Heroes". Since then, as of 2011[update], ten more have been so named, including, posthumously, the murdered journalistsHrant Dink ofTurkey andAnna Politkovskaya ofRussia.[2]
Established in 1996, the IPI Free Media Pioneer Award[3] honours individuals or organisations that fight against great odds to ensure freer and more independent media in their country or region. The award is co-sponsored by the US-basedFreedom Forum, a non-partisan, international foundation dedicated to free press and free speech.
Recipients of the award started withNTV in Russia in 1996, theAlliance of Independent Journalists in Indonesia in 1997, andRadio B92 in Serbia in 1998.[3] In 2022, there were seven awardees,ABO Local Media Development Agency,Hromadske,Slidstvo.info,StopFake,The Kyiv Independent,Ukraїner andUkrainska Pravda in Ukraine. IPI described the Ukrainian media organisations as having "[risen] to face head-on the challenges and dangers brought byRussia's war of aggression with courage, quality reporting, and a steadfast commitment to serving local communities at a time of immense need".[4]
Each year, IPI holds an international congress where several hundred publishers, editors and senior journalists from around the world gather to debate and discuss a range of issues that concern the fight for a free media.[citation needed]
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