Inter Press Service (IPS) is the worlds leading news agency on issues such as development, environment, human rights and civil society. However, at its outset, IPS had a more focused goal: to fill the information gap between Europe and Latin America through a snail mail-borne feature news service. It was to this end that a non-profit international cooperative of journalists by the name of IPS was founded in 1964 by Italian-Argentinean economist Roberto Savio and Argentinean political scientist Pablo Piacentini, both of them still involved in IPS. Such rapid growth brought with it the need for decentralization, which led to the creation of a regional structure.

Their Mission is Information is an agent of change. Since its inception, back in 1964, IPS has believed in the role of information as a precondition for lifting communities out of poverty and marginalization.This belief is reflected in our historic mission: giving a voice to the voiceless – acting as a communication channel that privileges the voices and the concerns of the poorest and creates a climate of understanding, accountability and participation around development, promoting a new international information order between the South and the North.producing stories and analyses, which explain how events and global processes affect individuals and communities, especially the marginalised and voiceless.The statutes of the IPS International Association provide a formal organisational framework for carrying out their mission.

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