Press Freedom

Amsterdam/ Vienna. July 15, 2021 by Edward Steen, AEJ Secretary-General Just over a week after being shot in broad daylight as he emerged from an Amsterdam...

(es) London/ Vienna, July 14 2021 In a first halfway serious reverse for big tech, France has fined Google €500m for failing to negotiate “in...

Yerevan/ London, July 12, 2021 by William Horsley, AEJ Media Freedom Special Representative A Spanish photojournalist visiting Armenia’s Gegharkunik province (see political map) near the border...

Ankara/ Berlin July 8, 2021 from Dogan Tilic, Ankara/ Berlin Erk Acarer, a prominent exiled opposition columnist for the independent Turkish daily BirGün, was attacked by...

London/ Amsterdam  July 6, 2021 Celebrated Dutch crime reporter "critically ill" after Amsterdam shooting By William Horsley, AEJ Media Freedom Representative Dutch crime reporter Peter R. de...

Vienna/ Brussels  July 7, 2021 from Edward Steen, Secretary-General In yet another outrage against investigative reporters,  the internationally celebrated investigative journalist Peter R De Vries, 67,...

London/ Vienna  July 3, 2021 by Edward Steen, Secretary-General As if Brexit, a pandemic, and an economic crisis were not enough, UK media journalists now face...

(dt/es)  Ankara / Vienna  June 29, 2021 Turkish journalists demonstrated in front of government offices over police violence against the prize-winning Kurdish AFP photojournalist Bülent...

(es) Cambridge / Vienna  June 30, 2021 Slamming political rivals may be the most effective way to go viral – revealing social media’s 'perverse incentives',...

(jm and es) London/ Brussels/ Vienna.  June 30, 2021 A long-overdue article in the London Guardian of June 24, 2021 looks into the revolt against...