Press Freedom

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,...

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...

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... ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...