CoE Platform event – April 28,10.00 11.30 CET
Wednesday’s 90-minute online public event will present the annual report of the 14 Safety of Journalists Platform partners.
MFR William Horsley reminds that pre-registration is...
Information as a Public Good
William Horsley, London, April 27, 2021
This year’s World Press Freedom Day https://www.un.org/en/observances/press-freedom-day will take place with multiple events from April 29 to May 3, and the...
AI faking Zoom conversations
ES, Vienna April 23, 2021
Russian misinformation has gone beyond fake facts about jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, creating fake interviews using Artificial Intelligence to...
Jonathan Fryer: A remarkable personality, journalist, writer and passionate Liberal has passed away
Jonathan Fryer
1950-2021
It is with great sadness we note the death of Jonathan Fryer, long-time AEJ UK member, journalist, broadcaster, author and active Liberal Democrat....
Mayhem breaks out in Russia and E Europe
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by Edward Steen, Vienna
April 19, 2021
The European Council of Ministers meeting in Brussels today faces a series of confrontations, over Russian opposition leader and...
US COLLEAGUES UNCOVER FAR-RIGHT IN ARMY
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es, Vienna, April 18, 2021
Following increasing evidence of a far-rightist conspiracy behind the Capitol Hill riot on January 7, The Pentagon reacted swiftly last...
NAVALNY “HANGING BY A THREAD”
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Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, 44, three weeks into a hunger-strike, was said today to be close to death. US President Joe Biden,...
Media “short-changed” by Kurz prize
Vienna / Athens, April 15, 2021
by Edward Steen
Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, under fire in Austria for attacks on the media, is to be honoured on...
COE takes up attack on Austrian journalist
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London, April 15, 2021
by William Horsley
Media freedom groups have joined the AEJ in condemning the Hungarian government for a serious attack on media freedom...
LEGENDARY JOURNALIST HUGO PORTISCH DIES AT 94
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The Austrian journalist Hugo Portisch was perhaps the greatest editor, TV commentator, and historian of modern Central Europe, and largely shaped Austria’s modern sense...