“No democracy without free media”
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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...