[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Poland’s ruling Law and Justice Party (PiS) has had a lot to celebrate in recent months. Just three days after...
Poland’s new laws on surveillance have “enormous implications for media freedom”
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CATEGORY: Mapping Media Freedom
Mapping Media Freedom: In review 9-15 December
Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout the European Union and neighbouring countries. Here are five recent reports that give us cause for concern.
The Netherlands: Journalists face threats in heated Black Pete racism debate
Journalists and columnists in The Netherlands are dealing with threats when writing about the controversial black-faced children’s character Black Pete.
Mapping Media Freedom: Recent roundup
Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout the Europe. Here are five recent reports that give us cause for concern.
Mapping Media Freedom: In review 25 November-1 December
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced...
Kosovo: Violence, threats and impunity continue to plague the media
A series of attacks and death threats towards journalists and broadcasters has stirred unrest amongst journalists in Europe’s youngest country
Mapping Media Freedom: In review 10-17 November
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced...
Mapping Media Freedom: In review 28 October-9 November
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced...
Exploring Ireland’s decline in media plurality
Concentrated media market gives business owners influence over the news
Tailor-made laws: The state of surveillance in Germany
What is worse: intelligence services gathering data without any legal basis or secret services operating within a legal framework that allows them to obtain vast amounts of personal information?
Mapping Media Freedom – a major Index on Censorship project and a joint undertaking with the European Federation of Journalists and Reporters Without Borders, partially funded by the European Commission – covers 42 countries, including all EU member states, plus Bosnia, Iceland, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Turkey, Albania along with Ukraine, Belarus and Russia in (added in April 2015), and Azerbaijan (added in February 2016). The platform was launched in May 2014 and has recorded over 3,000 incidents threatening media freedom.
Violations, censorship and needs of threatened journalists in Europe
Journalists and media workers are confronting relentless pressure simply for doing their job. Mapping Media Freedom identifies threats, violations and limitations faced by members of the press throughout European Union member states, candidates for entry and neighbouring countries. Learn more.