API-IPA is organising a training session on digital security for journalists in cooperation with Reporters Without Borders (RSF, Reporters sans frontières). Nicolas Diaz, RSF’s head of digital security, will lead the training session which will be at 9:30-12:00 on Tuesday, 23 April.
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ACCREDITATION/ACCESS PROBLEMS AT NATO
Numerous API members and other colleagues appear to have had their application for the annual NATO accreditation denied. That hindered or in some cases even prevented their coverage of the meeting of NATO foreign ministers on 3-4 April 2024.
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NEW API WEBSITE
Welcome to API-IPA’s new website, painstakingly and excellently crafted by Martina Gerbus at OMG Agency. Thanks, too, to our vice-president Catherine Feore for driving the relaunch of our web presence. It will enable us to provide the Brussels correspondents with better and more up-to-date information on our activities. And let us remember poet and novelist […]
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International Press Association Website Development
The International Press Association/Association de la Presse Internationale in Brussels is seeking proposals from a qualified website developer to build a new website using WordPress, the current site (www.api-ipa.org) is based on the JOOMLA content management system. The website should support bilingual functionality in French and English and maintain the existing layout.
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IN MEMORIAM COSTAS VERROS (1947 – 2023)
When in early 1995, Costas Verros, who had been API president from 1991 onwards, joined the Spokespersons Group of the European Commission, it took many colleagues by surprise. A journalist changing sides? Well, Costas thought that it was time for a change – neither for the first nor the last time in his professional career.
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Access of Non-Brussels-Based Correspondents to Technical & Background Briefings
After a long discussion with the European Commission’s Spokespersons Service (SPP), API has reached an agreement about the access of non-accredited, non-Brussels-based journalists to off-the-record technical and background briefings. The SPP initially wanted to open up those briefings to a wide array of non-Brussels-based journalists, but there was much opposition to this from the Brussels […]
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REPORT OF API-IPA’S 2022 GENERAL ASSEMBLY – 14 JULY 2022
API-IPA held its 2022 General Assembly on July 14th. For the first time in three years we met in physical format. Around 25 members were present. The first part of the meeting was chaired by vice-president Teresa Küchler, the second part by president Katalin Halmai. 1. The meeting approved, without a vote, the […]
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ATTRACTIVE NEW JOBS FOR THE TWO PINOS
Did someone say that the two Pinos have actually retired? API can reveal that this is total fake news. We proudly announce that we have recruited both of them on a long term basis for our football team.
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IN MEMORIAM KHALID FAROOQI: 1961-2022
It is with great sadness that API has learned of the sudden death of our long-time member Khalid Farooqi, a correspondent for Geo News TV from Pakistan. Mr Farooqi suffered a heart attack just after arriving in Brussels by bus from London. He leaves behind his wife, a son and a daughter.
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Investigation Demanded in Case of API Member Held by UK Authorities Under Counter Terrorism Act
In a letter to the Home Secretary of the UK government, Priti Patel, API-IPA and four other organisations of journalists have demanded an investigation into why British API-member Martin Banks recently was held and interrogated for six hours by UK border guards about his activities as a journalist, under the UK’s Counter-Terrorism and Border Security […]