From 9-11 December 2022, ECPMF will host the RE:Cover, a conference focusing on every aspect of war reporting in Ukraine.
As oppressive regimes and corrupt corporations take over sports federations in an effort to sanitise their public image through sportswashing projects, media freedom faces increasing pressure.
Between 15 and 18 November 2022, partners of the Council of Europe’s Platform on Safety of Journalists will visit Kosovo and Albania to assess the current state of media freedom and protection for journalists in the two countries.
International media freedom and journalists organisations warn that while significant progress has been made in Kosovo, toxic rhetoric and smear campaigns against media, underfunding of public broadcaster and lack of transparency risk undermining the progress.
Press freedom groups raise alarm that Bulgarian Foreign Agent law appears intended to target critical media.
Members of the Coalition Against SLAPPs in Europe (CASE), with the support of the coalition’s Italian group and Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR), express solidarity with Roberto Saviano who attended the first hearing in the proceedings for aggravated defamation initiated against him by current Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
Following a two-day fact-finding mission to Tirana on 17-18 November 2022, the partners of the Council of Europe’s Platform on Safety of Journalists today publish their findings on press freedom, media pluralism and the safety of journalists in Albania.
Reform aimed at limiting political interference over RTV SLO faces upcoming referendum challenge.
Freedom of Information Acts, sometimes referred to as Access to Information Laws or Transparency Acts, are pieces of legislation which allow citizens to request information held by public authorities, but how do they work in practice?
[vc_row][vc_column width="2/3"][vc_single_image image="5941" img_size="medium"][vc_column_text] ECPMF joins an open letter to Prime Minister Edi Rama from international press freedom groups over decision to ban journalists from press conferences. Albanian translation below. [/vc_column_text][vc_sepa
