Rising political tension in Turkey affects media outlets too. On the evening of 8th September, the headquarter of Hürriyet Daily in Istanbul has been attacked for a second time within 48 hours.
On 8th and 9th October, media experts from across Europe will meet in Leipzig at the inaugural conference of the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)
How to define media integrity, and what puts it at risk? The SEE Media Observatory elaborates on these issues in a brochure recently released and available in 6 languages
Several journalists have been dismissed by the Turkish Milliyet Daily during these last weeks. One of them reacts: ”We already cannot work as journalists under this great pressure”
In Vienna Civil sector groups from six Western Balkans countries urged their political leaders to secure freedom of expression and media independence, also calling for more of a role in their countries' EU integration processes
Legitimate claim or political plot? A former co-owner of one of the country's most popular TV channels has claimed the intellectual property of the TV logo. The judiciary intervenes with a number of temporary restrictions and Rustavi 2 risks to disappear
An analysis of the media situation in Romania, released by the Center for Media Transparency, highlights different media models in the country, their relation to politics and the deriving challenges in terms of media pluralism and transparency
The trial of Khadija Ismayilova, the main investigative Azerbaijani journalists in prison since last December, began last July 24 and may close as early as this week
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media calls on Croatian authorities to protect differing and critical voices and to investigate string of attacks on journalists
Freezing the assets of the Georgian television channel Rustavi 2 following an ownership dispute threatens media pluralism in the country, warns OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
OSCE Representative for Freedom of the Media condemns the attack on journalist Cornelia Krebs, who was reporting on border migration issues in Macedonia
It is necessary to help journalists resist to the low-intensity war they fight everyday. A report from the Ossigeno conference held in Rome on the 2nd of July.
For expressing criticism against the Azerbaijan government and collaborating with Armenian newspapers and NGOs, our correspondent Arzu Geybullayeva has been repeatedly threatened and labeled as “traitor”
On July 9th, the owners of B92, Belgrade's historic radio and bastion of resistance to Milošević's power in the nineties, introduced drastic changes, ultimately turning off a myth of the Serbian media
Speaking at the end of her two-day visit to Montenegro, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović welcomed the new draft Code of Ethics for Montenegrin journalists
The Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe sent a letter to the president of Ossigeno per l'Informazione on the occasion of today's conference “Protect who reports inconvenient truths”, taking place in Rome
Representatives of 20 journalists associations, publishing houses, academic institutions, trade unions and media rights experts from many European countries have founded on the 24th of June the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF). The photos of the founding Assembly
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) welcomes the launch of the Croatian Center for the Protection of Freedom of Expression. The Croatian Journalists’ Association (HND), in cooperation with the Union of Croatian Journalists (SNH), both members of the EFJ, will present this project in Zagreb, on 2 July. The Center will provide legal protection to journalists, in a context of increasingly frequent threats and intimidation
A rally in the Armenian capital against yet another electricity price increase triggers the police. Beatings, insults, and even violence against journalists
