Conversations about Europe and Media
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Brussels, April 27, 2021
In March 2020 the European Commission launched the European News Media Forum https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/events/european-news-media-forum-safety-journalists on the safety of journalists, part of the next European...
Govts need to shape up on media freedom – CoE
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ES, Vienna, April 27 2021
In a hard-hitting statement today https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/-/secretary-general-european-governments-should-show-stronger-political-will-to-protect-press-freedom Council of Europe Secretary-General Marija Pejčinović Burić called for stronger political will by governments to protect...
CoE Platform event – April 28,10.00 11.30 CET
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Wednesday’s 90-minute online public event will present the annual report of the 14 Safety of Journalists Platform partners.
MFR William Horsley reminds that pre-registration is...
Spot misinformation online with these tips
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The COVID-19 pandemic. Elections around the world. Fact-checkers worldwide have had a busy year. More than 50,000 new fact checks surfaced on Google Search over the...
Irina tells it like it is on TV
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ES Vienna, 27 April 2021
Irina Nedeva, the AEJ's special representative on fake news and disinformation spoke on the main private Bulgarian TV channel today...
Information as a Public Good
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William Horsley, London, April 27, 2021
This year’s World Press Freedom Day https://www.un.org/en/observances/press-freedom-day will take place with multiple events from April 29 to May 3, and the...
De-lousing the Web
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We know from the latest Facebook whistleblower that there are plenty of governments and others hard at work telling us lies or misleading half-truths....
NAVALNY “HANGING BY A THREAD”
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Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, 44, three weeks into a hunger-strike, was said today to be close to death. US President Joe Biden,...
COE takes up attack on Austrian journalist
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London, April 15, 2021
by William Horsley
Media freedom groups have joined the AEJ in condemning the Hungarian government for a serious attack on media freedom...
AEJ Turkey’s annual survey of press freedom shows further steps tightening the chains on media’s ability to report the truth
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Published on Friday, December 14, 2018
AEJ Turkey, with other members of the joint G-9 press freedom Platform, says that 145 journalists are still in...