You can arrest one reporter, but a dozen others will take their place
Journalists have worn bags on their heads in parliament and on TV as a silent protest and mark of solidarity with Afghan Mukhtarli.more information
Why the so called "Facebook law" is the wrong tool against hate speech
With the so called "Facebook law" the Social Network Enforcement BillGermany is trying to fight hate speech and misinformation on the internet.more information
Violence against journalists in Macedonian parliament
Macedonian journalist Dimitar Tanurov gives his first-hand account of what it was like to walk into a chaotic scene in the Macedonian parliament on 27 April and become a victim himself of politically-motivated violence.more information
Das Feindbild II – Journalistische Selbstbehauptung und „Lügenpresse“
Die Zahl der politisch motivierten Angriffe auf Journalisten in Deutschland geht seit Ende 2015 wieder zurück. Das ist leider kein Grund zur Entwarnung. Auch im Jahr 2016 wurden 19 Journalisten gewaltsam angegriffen. Dazu kamen unzählige Bedrohungen, Beleidigungen und Sachbeschädigungen.more information
France: How journalists fought fake news in tight race
An innovative project from the American think-and-do tank First Draft News has shed light on many murky aspects of the 2017 French presidential election campaign. In the CrossCheck project, journalists from a number of different newspapers and websites worked together to verify and examine claims from all sides of the political spectrum.more information
Whistleblowing to the press in Kosovo
Effective collaboration between whistleblowers and journalists is key to the exposure of weak institutions or those that are beset by nepotism or special interests. In such cases, internal mechanisms for exposing issues of public interest are generally dysfunctional, while external mechanisms such as taking cases through justice institutions might cost the whistleblower their job.more information
Threats
Fake news and propaganda have always been present in the Albanian media landscape, and by being re-invented and justified in the ‘spirit’ of new media and reporting freedom, they are sadly growing and suffocating the real news.more information
ECPMF
Since the end of 2015 the number of politically-motivated attacks on journalists in Germany has reduced. Unfortunately that does not mean that we can sound the all-clear. In 2016 too 19 journalists were violently attacked.more information
RSS-News from our Partners
All content available on the ECPMF website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. If you would like to republish this article on your blog or website you can do so using the words "This article was originally published by the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom" including a direct active link to the article page and indicating the author's name.