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,...
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...
Kabul – dark “new normal” for journalists and freedom
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London, August 20, 2021
by William Horsley, AEJ Media Freedom Representative
Afghan journalists and other media workers are among those in greatest danger of violent reprisals...
A new law to shut up US journalists?
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A First Amendment precedent?
by Mark Porter, Cannes, August 19, 2021
In America, it is very hard for government officials to win libel suits. All that...
Polish govt on brink over media clampdown
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(es) Warsaw/ Vienna. August 12, 2021
The Polish governing alliance was today on the brink of collapse over its thinly-disguised attempt to close down the...
AEJ – “never again” on state role in Daphne murder
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London/ Valletta. July 30, 2021
“Never again!” AEJ calls for decisive action
by William Horsley, Media Freedom Special Representative
The AEJ welcomes the findings of the final...
Daphne murder report confirms state complicity
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(es/ wm) Valletta, updated July 31, 2021
The Maltese Prime Minister, Dr. Robert Abela, yesterday received the Public Inquiry report into the murder of investigative...
Messing with people’s heads on vacc policy
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(es) Vienna, July 29, 2021
It is no longer politically correct to use the word "gullible", and there are no doubt some who believe it's...
Pegasus scandal: Orban in electronic tangle
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Budapest/ Vienna. Updated August 11, 2021
by Edward Steen, AEJ sec-gen
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has become the first European leader to be challenged to...