Jourova – the threat of unfreedom still lurks
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by Edward Steen. Vienna, May 3, 2023
Věra Jourová, who has done so much as Commission Vice-President for Values and Transparency, to protect media freedom,...
World Press Freedom Day – blank page protest
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by Otmar Lahodynsky. Vienna, May 3, 2023
Today, World Press Freedom Day: Austria is only at 29th place in the new global ranking.
Wars, crises...
AEJ – THE WEEK
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by Edward Steen, Secretary-General. Vienna, April 30, 2023
There is too much news, for me and no doubt for you too, loyal readers and colleagues...
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Tucked up for a news soap-opera
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by Edward Steen, Secretary-General. Vienna, April 26, 2023 updated 28/04/23
Bored with the shenanigans of the British Royal Family? Do you really really care about...
Can Turkish media break free with this election?
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Turkey's presidential and parliamentary elections on May 14 will show whether Erdoğan's decade of relentless state interference with the media has paid off for...
The anti-European news genius who went too far
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UPDATE April 24, 2023,Tucker Carlson resigns from Fox News. See: American Soap Opera
by Llewellyn King, Rhode Island, April 24, 2023
His besetting sin is that...
Kara-Mursa faces Stalinist 25 years sentence
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by Edward Steen, Vienna, April 18, 2023
Putin's latest unendurably cynical blow to the human spirit was delivered yesterday by sentencing to 25 years the...
Writing on wall for world’s oldest daily?
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by Edward Steen, Vienna April 21, 2023
Despite protests from all over Europe and by Austria's leading figures, the liberal Wiener Zeitung, the world's oldest-surviving...
Wiener Zeitung editorial on April 18, 2023
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EDITORIAL STATEMENT:
Editor: "The draft law on the 'Wiener Zeitung' only intends to destroy it" (Original German/DE)
The ÖVP and the Greens will introduce the draft...
Journalists’ freedom under the spotlight
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Journalists’ freedom in the crosshairs
by Kyriakos Pieridis, AEJ Media Freedom Representative, Nicosia 11/04/23
Nicosia's Municipal Theatre last Wednesday was packed for the play by Times...