Mourning the deaths of Italian photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli and his Russian interpreter Andrei Mironov, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović stressed on May 25th the need of ensuring the safety of journalists working in conflict zones in Ukraine
Index on Censorship, (London, United Kingdom) and Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso, (Rovereto, Italy) have launched mediafreedom.ushahidi.com, a website that will enable the reporting and mapping of media freedom violations across the 28 EU countries plus candidate countries
The South East Europe Media Organisation is supporting the Serbian Media Coalition that sent a request on 30 April to the Serbian Ministry of Culture and Information and the Ministry of State Administration and Local Self-Government, demanding that they take all necessary steps to end the abuse of public funds that are intended for the media at the local level
The new EU Guidelines on Freedom of Expression online and offline were generally welcomed, but also criticized by some over what they saw as an important omission
Der Spiegel magazine has withdrawn its reporter from Turkey, Hasnain Kazim, after he received death threats over a report in the wake of the Soma disaster last week, German media reported May 20.
What’s at stake for freedom of expression and national security? A live-streamed panel discussion promoted by the Central European University of Budapest on May 16
Two Italian and two Turkish journalists, plus one of each Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro, Serbia and Slovenia have been named as "information heroes," along with 91 other media professionals and activists from across the globe
Turkey has dropped out of the group of "partly free" countries to join those in the "not free" category, according to Freedom House's annual report on press freedom in the world, released on May 1st. The authors of the survey explained the country's decline with the deterioration of the media environment there in 2013
The OSCE said on Monday (April 28th) that the twin elections held in Macedonia the previous day were "orderly and peaceful," but that numerous problems had been identified in the runup to and after the vote, with the lack of a free and impartial media environment
