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Media Freedom Rapid Response reloaded for another year

IJ4EU rebooted: €1.1M in grants for investigative journalism in Europe

The Investigative Journalism for Europe fund is back — bigger, better and with extra assistance for freelancers.

MFRR to hold press freedom mission to Slovenia

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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MFRR calls for an ambitious EU Media Freedom Act

Media Freedom Rapid Response calls for an ambitious European Media Freedom Act The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) welcomes the idea of a European Media Freedom Act, advanced by European [...]

Serbia: Media freedom and journalists must be protected. Findings from the 2021 MFRR Mission

MFRR Report: Concerns about safety of journalists and media workers in Serbia predate Covid-19 outbreak Article 19 led report summarises findings of international press freedom mission While minimal progress such [...]

Legal threats from fossil fuel firms reinforce call for anti-SLAPP Directive

Vice President Jourová European Commission Rue de la Loi / Wetstraat 200 1049 Brussels CC: Commissioner Reynders 04 May 2021 Re: Eni’s abuse of SLAPPs, the latest example of fossil fuel [...]

Journalists and NGOs around the world call on Russia to stop suppression of independent media

Suppression of Russian Media On this World Press Freedom Day, we call on the Russian government to uphold its responsibility to protect and defend freedom of the press. In 1998, [...]

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: Sharing solidarity with journalists facing sexist online harassment

Journalists Tanja Milevska, Anastasia Tikhomirova and Marianna Spring work in different countries for different media but have one thing in common: all have become targets for misogynist online harassment....

#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...

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