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There is a need to reform EU defamation law, as well as to strengthen judicial awareness of principles of free expression and to educate and train journalists on their rights and editorial standards, according to the International Press Institute (IPI)

The VIII South East Europe Media Forum (SEEMF) will be held in Skopje on 16-18 October 2014. The discussions will include the right to access information, data journalism, privacy and the protection of journalists’ sources, self-regulation and standards of quality reporting

PEN International is deeply concerned by the news that journalist and political analyst Arzu Geybullayeva is being subjected to a growing campaign of intimidation for working for the Istanbul-based Armenian newspaper Agos

A seminar will take place in Brussels on 3 October 2014 for an exchange of practices in the field of transparency of media ownership.

An unstamped letter delivered at the premisses of T24 news website revealed an assassination plot against prominent columnists Aydın Engin and Murat Belge

Montenegro's Media Union has expressed grave concern about the number of journalists who are losing their jobs every day, urging the government to act

Six months after Aleksandar Vucic came to power, there are worrying signs that freedom of the media is deteriorating, Milana Knezevic writes

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) is concerned over media freedom developments in Serbia.

Ossigeno per l’Informazione has published the manual "The new lenses against censorship" showing in detail the method of monitoring developed by Ossigeno and experienced in Italy, and its results

The South East Europe Media Organization has expressed its deep concern regarding two new articles on the subject of internet laws, that were adopted on 10 September 2014 in Turkey.