In the thick of it – journalists in Afghanistan
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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
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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?
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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Image via Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images
A network of Bulgarian Facebook pages with hints...