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In the thick of it – journalists in Afghanistan

Kabul/ Vienna. September 22, 2021 (links updated 03/10/21) Fearing for their lives, 100 colleagues and media workers communicate frenetically in a WhatsApp group about how...

EU needs proper powers to protect media – AEJ

  London/ Brussels. September 16, 2021 by William Horsley, AEJ Media Press Freedom Representative For years the European Commission has been criticized for inaction in the face...

Afghanistan – the definitive film?

Vienna/ Berlin, September 13, 2021 + updates by Edward Steen, Secretary-General As was to be expected, the extraordinary independent but state.-funded Deutsche Welle has publicised one...

Surviving 50 years of spoofs, exposés, and libel actions

Vienna/ London.   September 13, 2021 by Edward Steen, Sec-Gen   The satirical London publication Private Eye, on the eve of celebrating (along with the AEJ) its half-century,...

11 settembre, vent’anni dopo. La storia è cambiata?

In Afghanistan le “chiavi” della supremazia mondiale Di Roberto Sciarone* La caduta del muro di Berlino, nel novembre del 1989, ha segnato una profonda “rottura di...

TV torture as lights go out over Russia

Cannes, September 7, 2021 by Mark Porter Russia is reported to be planning a counter-attack against US tech, accusing it of "meddling" if they host Alexei...

Taking the temperature of EU’s problem members

Vienna, September 6, 2021 EU “must stop threatening to kick Members out” by Edward Steen, Sec-General In an illuminating interview with Brigitte Rambossek (AEJ Austria Section) on...

Call on G7 to evacuate journalists and Afghan helpers

Photo: Journalist Freshta Farhang, who writes about women’s issues for an online media outlet, sits on her desk in the newsroom, in Kabul, Afganistan,...

The Three Exports from Afghanistan That Are Coming: Heroin, People and Terrorism

by Llewellyn King The end of an empire isn’t pretty. Or as Neil Sedaka sang, “Breaking up is hard to do.” The terrible scenes at Kabul’s...

Bulgarian Facebook Pages Post Altered Fox News Videos, Earning Tens of Millions of Views

It's not everyday that a Facebook network pushing disinformation involves a Spanish-language telenovela. Βυ Jordan Liles * Image via Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images A network of Bulgarian Facebook pages with hints...

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