Do people actually care about news?
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London/ Vienna, October 20, 2021.
by Edward Steen
Reuters report - Yes they do
Readers value media impartiality and like comment clearly signposted, according to research...
From prison Navalny scores again against Putin
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Brussels/ Vienna, October 20, 2021
by Edward Steen
Alexander Navalny tonight won the EU's Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, news that immediately circled the globe...
Media scandal forces Kurz to quit, again
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Vienna, October 15, 2021
by Otmar Lahodynsky, former AEJ President
"Poison for democracy and for rule of law"
(published in DE in Wiener Zeitung)
Reform of media funding...
Ukraine – social solidarity and culture on the Net
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Kyiv or if you prefer Kiev, October 12, 2021
By Ivan Verstyuk
Ukraine’s media market is a bit like Silicon Valley in the early days. A place...
Austrian Chancellor resigns – or does he?
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Vienna, October 10, 2021 (updated 12/10)
by Edward Steen, Secretary-General
The tainted Austrian Wunderkind politician Sebastian Kurz, 35, resigned last night under massive pressure over corruption...
Does Nobel Prize for two journalists really help us? Yes.
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London, October 2021
by William Horsley, AEJ Media Freedom representative
The Norwegian Nobel Committee's award of the Peace Prize to Dmitry Muratov, editor of Novaya Gazeta...
Putin’s Ukrainan nexus: Who’s Who? And what’s coming next…
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Kiev, October 4, 2021
by Ivan Verstyuk
Relations between Russia and Ukraine have never been easy. Since independence, Ukraine and its territory have been the focus...
Ivan Verstyuk
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Ivan Verstyuk, 38, is a business editor at NV, a Ukrainian weekly (nv.ua). He has been in journalism since 2004, while also working in...
Were we right all along about Facebook? Probably
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Vienna, October 7, 2021 (updated 20/10/21
by Edward Steen Secretary-General
Mark Zuckerberg is facing a Waterloo of his own making - the testimony on Capitol Hill...
Fourth Estate hits back with mega-investigation
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Vienna, October 3, 2021 (updated 05/10/2012)
by ES, Secretary-General
The biggest data leak in history - 11.9m files from companies hired by wealthy clients to create...