In 2017 Mapping Media Freedom, Index on Censorship’s project for monitoring media violations throughout Europe, registered 15 reports relating to Echo Moskvy.
Commercial interference pressures on the UK’s regional papers are growing. Some worry that jeopardises their independence.
“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.
Several journalists and news outlets from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina faced death threats following their coverage a war crimes trial
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
Jean-Paul Marthoz explores how commercial interference can impact journalism in Europe.
[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...
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Why tackling fake news must not lead to censorship, argues veteran journalist Jean-Paul Marthoz
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="96900" img_size="full" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]Thirty-one people, mostly Zaman journalists, appeared before a judge for the second time on 8 December on charges of aiding Turkey’s failed coup...
Media freedom is under threat worldwide. Journalists are threatened, jailed and even killed simply for doing their job.
Index on Censorship documents threats to media freedom in Europe via a unique monitoring project and campaigns against laws that stifle journalists’ work. We also publish an award-winning magazine featuring work by and about censored journalists. Learn more.