ECPMF joined the partner organisations of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR), along with the Journalists' Union of Athens Daily Newspapers (JUADN), to condemn the arson attack on the offices of newspaper Real News and the radio station Real FM in Athens on 13 July 2022.

The partner organisations of the MFRR today welcome the resounding exoneration of four Greek journalists and publishers who faced criminal charges and potential lengthy prison sentences linked to their media outlets’ investigative reporting.

The winners for the 2023 IJ4EU Impact Award were announced at an award ceremony in Leipzig on 31 March 2023.

One year after Bucha: Independent media plays a vital role in exposing the atrocities and brutality inflicted by Russian forces in Ukraine.

Honourable mention at the 2023 Impact Award Ceremony went to “Peat Pressure, an investigation by Irish investigative organisation Noteworthy that exposes a system of unregulated peat extraction and how two multi-million-euro horticultural peat companies have extracted it without consent and in breach of EU environmental law.

In recent years, the Chinese state has allegedly locked away a million Uyghurs in internment camps. The Xinjian Police Files, winner of a 2023 IJ4EU Impact Award, attaches names and faces to this brutal system, providing an unprecedented look behind the veil of secrecy.

Partner organisations of the Council of Europe’s Safety of Journalists Platform, a Europe-wide system of public alerts to flag and remedy serious threats to media freedom, call on the Russian authorities to release journalist Evan Gershkovich immediately and to drop all charges against him.

ECPMF has joined a group of organisations to express concern at the lack of implementation of the recommendations of the milestone Public Inquiry into the assassination of Malta’s leading investigative journalist, Daphne Caruana Galizia, one year on from the Inquiry's publication.

Partners of the MFRR have written to Marcin Wiącek, Polish Human Rights Ombudsman, expressing concern at his decision to refrain from appealing the acquisition of regional newspaper publisher Polska Press by PKN Orlen, a state-controlled media company.

This undercover investigation by a group of freelancers, Andy Brown, Philippe Auclair, Steve Menary, and Jack Kerr, in four countries reveals how live data fed to the sports betting industry can create a fertile ground for match-fixing.