IPI World Congress and Media Innovation Festival
Defending the Future of Free Media
The 2025 IPI World Congress and Media Innovation Festival will bring together the world’s leading journalists, editors, and media thinkers to confront the challenges facing journalism today and chart a path forward to safeguard free media for future generations.
Under the theme “Defending the Future of Free Media”, this year’s World Congress also marks IPI’s milestone 75th anniversary – a chance to reflect on 75 years of defending press freedom, strengthen the resilience and solidarity we need now, and collaborate on a vision for the future of public-interest journalism.
The event is open to those working in independent media outlets or as freelancers as well as to press freedom advocates; journalist students; media freedom supporters; and anyone committed to the future of free and independent journalism.
About the IPI
The International Press Institute is a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists. They are dedicated to the furtherance and safeguarding of press freedom, the protection of freedom of opinion and expression, the promotion of the free flow of news and information, and the improvement of the practices of journalism.