Press Freedom

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...

Vienna, June 23, 2021 and other news from Vienna and Central Europe (DE) In English (text only) Pressefrühstück der spanischen Botschafterin Cristina Fraile für die AEJ-Journalistinnen und...

Vienna, June 25, 2021 from Edward Steen, S-G.  The Biden-Putin summit in Geneva 10 days ago was dismissed by the Russian president as "Hollywood". He was...

  No more lip service: The EU must be more resolute vis-à-vis Russia By Otmar Lahodynsky Ex-President of the Association of European Journalists (AEJ) and former...

(es) Vienna. June 25, 2021 Belarus journalist Roman Protasevich and his Russian girlfriend Sofia Sapega, arrested after their flight was forced to land in Minsk...

from Mark Porter (Austrian Section) in Cannes. June 23, 2021 As chief foreign correspondent of the Sunday Times Christina Lamb has dodged bullets and bombs,...