ECPMF news

Deterioration of media freedom in Croatia: an infographic

Croatia is recording a generalized decline of the conditions pertaining to media freedom and pluralism

Cumhuriyet’s Akın Atalay Detained

11/11/2016

Cumhuriyet Newspaper Executive Board President Akın Atalay has been detained at Atatürk Airport where Atalay returned from abroad.

"We are not audience hunters": Romanian House of Journalists

11/11/2016 -  Stela Giurgeanu

“We are not audience hunters” explains Vlad Ursulean, founder of the "House of Journalist". A project meant to revitalize journalism in Romania

Romania: public broadcaster threatened by populism

31/10/2016 -  Marina Constantinoiu

A few weeks before the elections, the Romanian Parliament abolished the radio-television fee posing the public broadcaster under direct financing from the state budget

Wikipedia 'edit-a-thon' seeks to boost contents on media freedom and pluralism

28/10/2016

An edit-a-thon will take place in Belgrade on November 21st to boost the availability of accurate knowledge on media freedom in the largest open encyclopedia worldwide

Romania to Eliminate Public Broadcast Fee

25/10/2016

Concerns about independence and sustainability of the public broadcaster, as Romania proposes to abolish the subscription fee and introduce direct funding of the public radio-television

Turkey: censorship reaches Europe

26/10/2016 -  Fazıla Mat

A Kurdish television station based in Italy was blacked out at the request of the Turkish authorities. The reconstruction of the occurence

A safe haven for media workers under threat: the ECPMF Journalists-in-Residence-Programme

21/10/2016

Until 8 November 2016, threatened media freedom activists and journalists from EU and pre-accession countries can apply for the ECPMF Journalists-in-Residence-Programme

Journalists Behind Bars

13/10/2016 -  Mogens Blicher Bjerregård* Brussels

Killings, imprisonments and other methods to silence journalists happens all too often, in Europe as elsewhere in the world. In this editorial, the importance of being on the side of those who are threatened

Turkey, the coup seen by CNN Turk

14/10/2016 -  Dimitri Bettoni Istanbul

The journalists of the Turkish CNN experienced first hand the attempted coup, since their premises were occupied by the coup leaders. Interview with Ferhat Boratav, managing editor of CNN Turk