How to craft a podcast series that captivates audiences as they are watching a movie full of twists and turns? George Lavender, the Head of Creative Production, Limited Series at Wondery, will share his experience in tailoring narrative for creative audio formats. Join us for "Movies without Pictures," to hear from the Emmy award-winning journalist [...]
The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, journalists, and media executives for press freedom, condemns a series of attacks on the press in Turkey around the country’s March 31 municipal elections. Authorities in Turkey must protect and defend the right of journalists to freely cover elections and their outcomes. Journalists play a [...]
Ahead of Türkiye’s municipal elections on 31 March 2024, ARTICLE 19, Human Rights Watch and 19 rights groups and journalists’ organisations jointly call on social media platforms to uphold the free expression rights of their users and resist state censorship. They should also fully disclose all government requests to restrict accounts or content, and be [...]
As the next hearing of journalist Dicle Müftüoğlu approaches on February 29, 2024, we call for immediate attention to her case and her unjust detention. Müftüoğlu, Co-Chair of the Dicle Fırat Journalists Association (DFGD) , has been wrongfully held for over nine months on unsubstantiated terrorism charges in a case that starkly violates international legal [...]
As the Republic of Turkey celebrated its 100th anniversary in 2023, last year also marked a year of investigations, detentions, lawsuits, arrests, violence and self-censorship for Turkey’s journalists. According to data from the International Press Institute (IPI), in 2023, there were more than 300 cases of journalists on trial in Turkey. At least 37 different [...]
This article is part of Turkey Dispatches, a special IPI series on press freedom and the realities of practicing journalism in today’s Turkey, written by those most directly affected: Turkey’s journalists and those who defend them. I’ve been working on stories about migration and refugees for eight years since I moved [...]
This article is part of Turkey Dispatches, a special IPI series on press freedom and the realities of practicing journalism in today’s Turkey, written by those most directly affected: Turkey’s journalists and those who defend them. Peace journalism is one of the constructive ways to approach news. In the early 2000s [...]
On the 17th anniversary of the murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, the International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, journalists, and media executives for press freedom, condemns the continued impunity in the case and calls on the Turkish authorities to deliver justice. On January 19, 2007, Dink was shot in broad daylight [...]
Are you eager to foster innovation and explore fresh narrative formats? Join us for a presentation from Selymar Colón, where she will unveil a plethora of pragmatic inquiries, creative formats, and approaches to enhance the art of storytelling. Delve into the intricacies of tailoring your narrative, aligning it seamlessly with the unique blend of your [...]
Organized by the International Press Institute (IPI) Turkey National Committee and co-hosted by Galatasaray University on its campus in Istanbul on November 24, 2023, IPI’s third annual Turkey Media Symposium entitled "AI and Media: Navigating the Revolution" will bring together a new generation of young journalists and journalism students from across Turkey with international and local experts as well as [...]