Commercial interference pressures on the UK’s regional papers are growing. Some worry that jeopardises their independence.
Tracey Bagshaw: Is compromise compromising news?
read more
CATEGORY: media freedom featured
Preventing protest coverage: How Belarus controls what the public knows
“Europe’s last dictatorship” doesn’t tolerate dissent. The country’s constitution claims to protect freedom of the press, but many laws seem to contradict this.
Croatia: Journalists targeted after reporting on sentences imposed on “war criminals”
Several journalists and news outlets from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina faced death threats following their coverage a war crimes trial
Mapping Media Freedom: 2017 in review
This year saw 1,035 media freedom violations reported to Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom, a project that monitors media freedom in 42 countries, including all EU member states
Greece: Journalists under Golden Dawn’s pressure
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="96965" img_size="full" alignment="center" onclick="custom_link" link="https://mappingmediafreedom.org/#/"][vc_column_text]Despite an ongoing trial that has sapped its popular appeal, members of the Greek...
Survey: How free is our press?
Are you a working journalist? Do you want to see better protections and freedoms for reporters?
Lawyers: Daphne Caruana Galizia murder investigation in flagrant breach of ECHR requirements
Doughty Street Chambers has surfaced concerns about the investigation being carried out into the death of Daphne Caruana Galizia, a journalist, writer and anti-corruption activist murdered on 16 October
Montenegro: When investigative journalism ends up behind bars
In Montenegro – NATO member country and EU candidate – attacks against the press are numerous and a journalist may be imprisoned for his investigative work.
Murdered Maltese journalist’s family dismayed at minister’s reaction
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The family of murdered journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has issued a statement and a letter in response to Maltese minister Michael Farrugia’s publication of their private letter to him. The private letter...
Italian journalist Lorenzo Tondo tells Index: “I have a duty to defend my rights”
“They breached my rights,” Tondo said. “I abide by professional confidentiality and I need to defend my sources.”