The debate will start from a bird’s eye view on the state of the art of journalism in Europe. Participants to the debate, including Index’s advocacy officer Melody Patry
3 May: Difference Day celebrates freedom of the press
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CATEGORY: Mapping Media Freedom
Croatia: Controversial TV show prompts dispute in national media
Walking around the Zagreb offices of the Electronic Media Council (AEM), Croatia’s broadcast regulator, must have had a distinctive feel to it on 26...
Italy: Reform could introduce fines for needless defamation suits against journalists
Recommendations approved by the Italian chamber of deputies could offer more protection to journalists.
Serbia: “Pro-regime” paper targets Crime and Corruption Reporting Network
Mapping Media Freedom correspondent Mitra Nazar details an ongoing smear campaign aimed at discrediting investigative journalists and casting doubt on the corruption they uncover
Mapping Media Freedom: Week in focus
Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project verifies threats, violations and limitations faced by the media throughout Europe
Greece: Move to regulate broadcast market draws objection
As the Greek government prepares to open a public consultation on the tender for new broadcast licenses, the country’s private TV owners have escalated their criticisms of the plans for the broadcast market.
Mapping Media Freedom: Week in focus
Each week, Mapping Media Freedom project verifies violations against the media. Here are five reports that give us cause for concern
Turkey: Media freedom in crisis
The increasingly autocratic government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, president of Turkey, has clamped down on press freedom and opposing political viewpoints
Turkey: A long line of press freedom violations
Turkey’s government and courts have demonstrated their unwillingness to adhere to basic values on press freedom and media pluralism
Yavuz Baydar: Bid farewell to journalism, and lose Turkey
Yavuz Baydar writes that Erdogan is driving the final nails into the coffin of journalism in Turkey
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.