IPI is a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists who share a common dedication to quality, independent journalism. Photo from The Daily Star
The Daily Star Editor and Publisher Mahfuz Anam has been elected as one of four vice-chairs of the International Press Institute's (IPI) global Executive Board.
Mahfuz Anam and his colleagues from Spain, Turkey, and the United States — all leading editors and media experts — have been elected to the positions by their fellow members of the Executive Board, shortly after the 2021 IPI World Congress, said an IPI media statement issued yesterday.
The three other new vice chairs are Virginia Pérez Alonso, editor-in-chief of the Spanish news site Público and chair of Platform for the Defence of Free Expression; Emre Kızılkaya, chair of IPI's Turkey National Committee and project editor at Journo.com.tr; and John Daniszewski, vice president, standards and editor at large for the Associated Press.
The vice-chairs join Executive Board Chair Khadija Patel, who was newly elected to her position at the IPI World Congress last month.
Ten new board members were also elected during the congress from Nigeria, Palestine, Hungary, Turkey, Russia, Jordan, the US, Japan, Finland, and Qatar.
The IPI Executive Board is elected by the General Assembly with regard to geography, gender and media, and other forms of diversity.
The board chair and vice-chairs are chosen by the Executive Board members.
The board oversees IPI's finances and guides the Secretariat in implementing the organisation's overall strategy in defence of media freedom.
IPI is a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists who share a common dedication to quality, independent journalism. It promotes the conditions that allow journalism to fulfil its public function, the most important of which is the media's ability to operate free from interference and without fear of retaliation.
Its mission is to defend media freedom and the free flow of news wherever they are threatened.
IPI is an association of media professionals representing leading digital, print and broadcast news outlets in nearly 100 countries.
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