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“No democracy without free media”

Former AEJ President Otmar Lahodynsky argues in an article for New Europe (Brussels) that there can be no democracy worth the name without free...

Serbia – beatings, harassment, and myth-making

Skip to content Serbia: media freedom and journalists in danger Brussels, May 7, 2021 ARTICLE 19's Media Freedom Rapid Response has published a disturbing report on its...

News (and news suppression) of Media Freedom Day

from William Horsley, AEJ Media Freedom Representative London, May 6, 2021 The latest issue of Safety of Journalists Weekly (Council of Europe publication) lists the latest...

Democracies are islands

Frankfurt, May 3, 2021 By Dieter Weirich*, the legendary journalist and politician who from 1989 onwards transformed Deutsche Welle into the global influence it is...

Jourová to take on Orbán over media concentration

es Vienna/ Brussels, May 4, 2021 European Commission Vice-President Věra Jourová yesterday called for new EU rules about  media concentration. In an interview in Brussels...

Covid death of great champion of Africa

The legendary editor and entrepreneur Béchir Ben Yahmed died from Covid yesterday at Lariboisière Hospital in Paris. He was 93.  Until hospitalised at the...

Murdered journalists not forgotten

Madrid, May 3, 2021 In a graphic broadcast, Deutsche Welle today paid tribute to the courage of all the journalists who have paid with their...

Mass solidarity campaign for Maria Ressa

international solidarity campaign launched for Maria Ressa On World Press Freedom Day 2021, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the #HoldTheLine coalition have launched an innovative...

CoE Platform report

from William Horsley, London. May 3, 2021 Anyone who missed the Event and Press conference on 28 April to mark the launch of the 2021...

World Press Freedom Day – Difference Day 2

In 1993 the United Nations General Assembly declared May 3rd as the World Press Freedom Day to raise awareness on the importance of freedom of the...

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