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Hate speech: what it is and how to contrast it

01/02/2018 -  Marzia BonaIrene DioliLorenzo FerrariFazıla MatNicola PedrazziRossella Vignola Valentina Vivona

As hate speech is being debated more and more both online and offline, we decided to devote a special dossier to it, building on the materials of the Resource Centre on Press and Media Freedom in Europe.

A violent year for Kosovo’s journalists

30/01/2018 -  Eraldin Fazliu

Last year in Kosovo 24 cases of threats and attacks on journalists have been registered

EFJ mission to Serbia: recommendations for media freedom

25/01/2018

Following concerns about the state of media freedom in Serbia expressed by both Serbian journalists and media organisations as well as international organisations and institutions, an international joint fact-finding mission comprised of representatives from the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the International Press Institute (IPI) and the South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) visited Serbia from 18th-19th January 2018.

Saša Leković: media freedom in Croatia is deteriorating

18/01/2018 -  Giovanni ValeJelena Prtorić Zagreb

For the second time in two years, Croatia was visited by a delegation of associations for the protection of media freedom – a negative record for a EU member. We talked about it with the president of the Association of Croatian journalists

Why does a "whistlеblower" remain an exotic phenomenon for Bulgaria?

15/01/2018 -  Mediapool

The low level of trust in the institutions on the part not only of the citizens but also on the part of those working in them is the reason – also evident from different sociological data

Whistleblowing in Slovenia

15/01/2018

From Radio Student, an interview with Alma Sedlar, a former member of the governing board of Slovenian anti corruption agency who resigned due to what she calls a “systematic obstruction of her work”

Montenegro, how not to protect whistleblowers

15/12/2017 -  Tina PopovićMila Radulović Podgorica

In Montenegro, to obtain the status of whistleblower is a major challenge. And even those who succeed risk being mobbed or fired

Turkey: whistleblowing, media, and the public interest

13/12/2017 -  Emre Tansu Keten Istanbul

In Turkey, whistleblowing and journalism based on it are being criminalised, as demonstrated by the cases of Reyhanlı and the trucks of MIT, the Turkish intelligence

Sofia edit-a-thon: for a plural ecosystem of information

14/12/2017 -  Rossella Vignola

Media freedom, public interest, transparency, data journalism, facts-based information: all these issues have been dealt with in Sofia, during the Wiki4MediaFreedom edit-a-thon, a writing marathon on media freedom-related issues in Wikipedia which gathered journalists, experts and activists

Kosovars need help to speak out

06/12/2017 -  Eraldin Fazliu Pristina

EULEX allegations raise the issue of whistleblowing