Editorial Director at @globalfreemedia; non-resident research Fellow at @CEIAS_eu
Prague
Joined September 2010
- Tweets23.2K
- Following6.5K
- Followers9.4K
- Likes59.4K
Reid Standish retweeted
$1 invested in journalism can generate more than $100 in public savings. But environmental journalists can only deliver that if they can get the records. A new IPI primer sets out how African governments can make that possible. buff.ly/U63WH9V
Reid Standish retweeted
🇹🇷Turkey: IPI condemns the appointment of a trustee to @halktvcomtr following a police raid the morning of October 14. Just a year after the takeover of TELE1 in October 2025, this is another blow to press freedom. We call for the restoration of Halk TV's independent operations.
Reid Standish retweeted
🇹🇷 Turkey: Authorities and courts ordered at least 1,270 X accounts blocked in September alone, with a combined following of 35 million. X complied with at least 90% of the orders. IPI has joined ARTICLE 19 and partners in protest. buff.ly/tEJr2I9
Reid Standish retweeted
BREAKING:
European Parliament significantly toughens China position, adopted by landslide
FOR 454
AGAINST 86
ABSTAIN 110
Report says China is “decisive enabler” of Russia & backs a “continuous [European] naval presence and joint exercises” in and around the Taiwan Strait
Reid Standish retweeted
🇷🇺 Twenty years ago today, Anna Politkovskaya was shot four times in the lift of her Moscow apartment building. She was 48, and had spent seven years documenting torture, disappearances, and abuses by Russian forces in Chechnya. buff.ly/qtFOtAV
Reid Standish retweeted
🇸🇦 Eight years after Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi operatives in Istanbul, IPI renews its call for an independent criminal investigation and presses for strengthening international mechanisms for investigating crimes against journalists. buff.ly/8wIYZDD
Reid Standish retweeted
1/4: 🇺🇸 Today, IPI is launching a new timeline tracking efforts by the Trump administration and its allies to expand executive control over the U.S. news media — and the implications for press freedom.
👇️ View the timeline: buff.ly/q5yXwPY
Reid Standish retweeted
⚡️ For @oxciej's #PowerTracker, Tulani Ngwenya investigated why South Africa's coal phase-out has stalled. The country committed to phasing down coal by 2030. In 2025, it switched on a brand-new plant, Kusile, built to burn until 2060. buff.ly/bm9NbwW
Reid Standish retweeted
🇭🇰 🇺🇸 🇨🇳 Donald Trump meets Xi Jinping at the White House tomorrow, the first such visit in more than a decade. IPI calls on Trump to press for the release of imprisoned journalist Jimmy Lai. buff.ly/ZpnIts6
Reid Standish retweeted
🇬🇪 Georgia: IPI has joined Human Rights House Foundation and other international civil rights groups in urging members of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe to press their governments to refer Georgia to the European Court of Human Rights.
Reid Standish retweeted
🌍 Journalists are often the first to expose the human toll of climate change and environmental degradation, and they frequently face threats, intimidation, and violence for it. This Climate Week, IPI is spotlighting their work. #ClimateWeekNYC buff.ly/bm9NbwW
Reid Standish retweeted
Nine months after @karlamendes interviewed him, Paulo Paulino Guajajara was killed in an ambush by illegal loggers in the Brazilian Amazon. His death set off a year-long investigation into who profits from that violence.
Reid Standish retweeted
🇺🇸 USA: @CNN, MS NOW (@MSNBC), and @politico have sued over a White House ban on their reporters, arguing it violates "the most basic guarantees of the First Amendment" and amounts to viewpoint discrimination. buff.ly/mNsCiSY
Reid Standish retweeted
🇳🇪Niger: IPI is deeply concerned about the whereabouts of Radio Télévision Saraounia journalist Moussa Kaka, who has been missing since August 31, following an attempted coup. IPI calls for a thorough and impartial investigation into his disappearance. buff.ly/nv7KAEL
Reid Standish retweeted
🇱🇸 Lesotho: Three men abducted @LsNewsday editor Kananelo Boloetse from his home on September 5, questioned him about his journalism and human rights work, then assaulted him and threatened his life. ipi.media/lesotho-ipi-condem…
Reid Standish retweeted
🇺🇦 Ukraine: A Russian drone struck the Kyiv newsroom of TV channel We Are Ukraine (My Ukraina) today while it was broadcasting live. At least five people were injured and the building was partly destroyed. IPI condemns the attack.
Reid Standish retweeted
Just 3 days left 📢Apply to the IPI Transition Accelerator, a programme for established European media.
Get up to €25k in funding + 8 months of training & coaching to grow and strategise audience relationships, revenue & technology.
🟠 Apply by Sep 9: buff.ly/a75jQMm
Reid Standish retweeted
🇲🇹 #Malta: IPI is devastated by the not guilty verdict in the trial of Yorgen Fenech, charged with masterminding the 2017 murder of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia. The jury cleared him of both charges eight-to-one after eight hours of deliberation.
Reid Standish retweeted
🇳🇵Nepal: Four journalists are still out of contact and 13 media outlets are damaged after the Himalayan floods. Across the border in Tibet, China has censored coverage of the same disaster. IPI stands with affected journalists and condemns the censorship. ipi.media/nepal-ipi-stands-w…
Reid Standish retweeted
🇮🇶 #Iraq: An Iraqi court has sentenced a member of Kataib Hezbollah over the March kidnapping of American journalist Shelly Kittleson in Baghdad. IPI welcomes the ruling as an important step towards accountability for attacks on the press.
arabnews.com/media/iraq-sent…
