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France tramples on press freedom

MFRR calls for an investigation into the targeting of journalists by the UK Government

ECPMF, as part of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR), calls for a robust and independent investigation into the potentially unlawful manipulation of Freedom of Information requests by the UK Government.

European Centre for Press and Media Freedom

The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) is a non-profit organisation that was founded in Leipzig, Germany, 2015. It operates on the basis of the European Charter on Freedom of the Press and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.

The vision of the Centre is a society where media freedom enables open discourse and everyone can seek, receive and impart information.

ECPMF’s mission is to promote, preserve and defend media freedom. We do this by monitoring violations, providing practical support and engaging diverse stakeholders across Europe.

Read ECPMF's strategy 2020-24

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Poland: OKO.press bears huge financial burden for legal threats against it

OKO.press of Poland bears huge financial burden for legal threats against it.

Germany: attacks on journalists and media workers at protests impede coverage

Only two weeks after the numerous attacks on journalists during the "Querdenken" demonstration in Leipzig on 7 November, we are once again witnessing attacks on media workers during today's demonstration [...]

James Cruickshank car on fire (photo: James Cruickshank)

MFRR condemns the arson attack on the publisher of The Digger and other acts to intimidate those selling the Glasgow-based weekly

The Czech Republic: MFRR partners concerned over side-lining of critical media outlets during the government press conferences

MFRR write to express their disappointment over the lack of communication with the media by the Government of the Czech Republic and the repeated denial of access for certain outlets to COVID-19 press conferences.

IJ4EU: Funding cross-border investigative journalism in Europe.

Media Freedom Rapid Response: Supporting and protecting journalists and media workers in EU Member States and Candidate Countries.

Support for journalists under threat and in exile in Germany

Latest reports on Mappingmediafreedom.org

#ReportIt: “I had never felt so threatened while doing my work” – reporting on climate protests in Germany

By Katharina Schipkowski In the early morning before sunrise, about two hundred people arrived in a local train at a very small railway station in Rhineland, near Europe’s biggest coalmine,...

#ReportIt: Is Italy more interested in keeping secret pacts with criminals, rather than protecting journalists?

[Leggi la versione italiana qui sotto.] By Nello Scavo The worst enemy of journalists and journalism is not crime, but the state lie. A state that lies when faced...

#ReportIt: We need to learn lessons from attacks at protests in Serbia

by Zoran Kusovac In July 2020 during public disturbances in Belgrade, some reporters were physically attacked by protestors and police, because of their perceived position, in terms of the ownership...

#ReportIt: When attacks force journalists to hide their identity

To many, the move of NOS News came as a surprise. What had happened to the Netherlands, so often perceived to be a nation of few extremes and plenty of tolerance?

#ReportIt: When state funding discredits the press – The Romanian media is facing a financial and moral dilemma

By Dumitrița Holdiș, Project Manager at the Center for Independent Journalism (CIJ) Bucharest, Romania and non-resident fellow at the Center for Media, Data and Society at Central European University in...

#ReportIt: Mental Health – Protecting the wellbeing of journalists and media workers across Europe

For World Mental Health Day (10th October 2020) ECPMF Helpdesk Manager, Katrin Schatz outlines the steps needed to protect the mental health and emotional wellbeing of journalists and media workers...

#ReportIt: The ever-present threat to democracy of gender-based violence and harassment

By Roberta Knoll, European Centre for Press and Media Freedom In this piece, ‘women’ refers to all people who identify as women. “Watch when you are seen in public”. This...

#ReportIt: Not a “normal procedure” – Police violence against the press in Europe

by Martin Hoffmann, Vice Chair of the European Institute for Journalism and Communication Research (EIJC), Editor with ZDF heute journal and Researcher for ECPMF 113 journalists and media workers in...

Gazeta Wyborcza’s Piotr Stasiński: “They want to bury us under an avalanche of lawsuits”

Interview by Jane Whyatt and Lutz Kinkel The Polish government seeks to control the public discourse. Gazeta Wyborza is a flagship for independent quality journalism – and because of that...

Journalist found guilty of ’justifying terrorism’

Press freedom has been put on trial in the case of a journalist who has escaped a jail term after a massive show of solidarity from journalists and campaigners. ...

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