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Writing on wall for world’s oldest daily?

by Edward Steen, Vienna April 21, 2023 Despite protests from all over Europe and by Austria's leading figures, the liberal Wiener Zeitung, the world's oldest-surviving...

Wiener Zeitung editorial on April 18, 2023

EDITORIAL STATEMENT: Editor: "The draft law on the 'Wiener Zeitung' only intends to destroy it" (Original German/DE)  The ÖVP and the Greens will introduce the draft...

AEJ Sections Country-by-Country

  Section: Albania Shoqata e Gazetarëve Evropianë Website: aejalbania.org Email: [email protected] Chair: Arbër Hitaj Secretary: Erjon Çiku   Section: Armenia Investigative Journalists NGO Website: www.hetq.am Email: [email protected] Chair: Lianna Sandyan Secretary: Kristine Barseghyan   Section: Austria Vereinigung der Europajournalistinnen und...

Journalists’ freedom under the spotlight

  Journalists’ freedom in the crosshairs by Kyriakos Pieridis, AEJ Media Freedom Representative, Nicosia 11/04/23 Nicosia's Municipal Theatre last Wednesday was packed for the play by Times...

WSJ reporter feted and free press defended

by Edward Steen, Secretary-General, Vienna, April 18, 2023 The Wall Street Journal reports that  Lynne Tracy, the newly-appointed U.S. ambassador to Russia, visited the WSJ's...

RSF protests against new Ukraine restrictions on reporters

by Edward Steen, Vienna, March 23, 2023 In a war it's rare to find anything like complete freedom (or truthfulness) of information from either side....

Kurier account Wiener Zeitung devs English

Kurier, Vienna. 20/03/2023 Wiener Zeitung: The most recent draft law primarily provides for an online medium, with 10 annual print editions. Transformation should be fully...

Wiener Zeitung latest – creeping govt takeover

by Edward Steen, Vienna, March 22, 2023 In defiance of protests across Austrian society, including by the respected former federal President Heinz Fischer, the 320-year-old...

UK govt planned to allow Wagner SLAPP against BBC

by Edward Steen, Vienna March 21, 2023 Putin’s private, sanctioned warlord, Yevgeny Prigozhin, 61, ex-jailbird, hot-dog salesman,  now billionaire founder of the murderous Wagner Group, ...

Navalny feature film wins Oscar in LA – infuriating Putin fans

Vienna, April 13, 2023 by Edward Steen As predicted in these pages by Julia Ioffe, the documentary film about Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny last night (12/03)...

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