International Press Institute (IPI)

Years before María Teresa Ronderos founded the Latin American Center for Investigative Journalism (El CLIP) as a hub for cross-border investigative reporting, she saw an acute need for a kind of “service center” to support and coordinate the work of investigative journalists across Latin America. In founding CLIP in 2019 alongside several colleagues, Ronderos sought to fill two distinct gaps.

The IPI global network today raises serious alarm over the ruling by a court in Kyiv which pre-emptively banned the publication of a joint investigation by Ukrainian independent outlet Slidstvo.Info and the Centre for Counteracting Corruption (CPK), a Ukrainian NGO. The investigation analysed publicly available documents and reported on alleged irregularities in the business dealings of the brother of the head of Ukraine’s State Investigation Bureau (DBR).

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The International Press Institute (IPI) is deeply concerned by the continued pattern of judicial harassment, intimidation, and violence targeting independent journalists in Mozambique, particularly those reporting on environmental crime, corruption, and natural resource governance. The most recent example is the ongoing targeting of investigative journalist Estácio Valoi.

The IPI global network strongly condemns the arbitrary military shutdown in Uganda of news outlets Daily Monitor and NTV Uganda, both part of Nation Media Group (NMG). The shutdown was ordered by the chief of the Ugandan defence forces, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba. IPI calls for the immediate and unconditional reopening of the media outlets and an end to retaliatory attacks against critical media in Uganda.

The International Press Institute (IPI) today raises alarm over growing regulatory and legal pressures against independent television broadcasters in Georgia, which mark another escalation in the playbook of attacks on press freedom. As hostility from the Russia-friendly Georgian Dream government toward media increases through the use of non-independent regulatory bodies, IPI renews our call for urgent action by the international community to safeguard what remains of media freedom.

The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomes the abolishment of the Orbán-era Sovereignty Protection Office by the new Tisza government. Earlier today the parliament passed a law officially dissolving the institution, marking another positive step towards the restoration of press freedom in the country. The SPO was set up in 2024 ostensibly to protect Hungary’s national sovereignty from foreign political interference.

The IPI global network today calls on the Ukrainian parliament to remove elements from a new draft civil code that could undermine investigative reporting and weaken freedom of expression. IPI also calls on the Ukrainian authorities to address concerns raised by Ukrainian civil society organisations as well as the Council of Europe around the bill, which would affect media rights, whistleblower protections, digital content and open-data rules.

The International Press Institute (IPI) expresses outrage over new legal threats targeting IPI-IMS World Press Freedom Hero Gustavo Gorriti in retaliation for his investigative journalism, which exposed widespread political and judicial corruption in Peru. IPI calls on Peruvian authorities to immediately cease the weaponisation of political power against Gorriti and all members of the media who report on public interest topics.