756 media freedom alerts in first six months of 2024 – MFRR Monitoring Report
756 media freedom alerts in first six months of 2024 – MFRR Monitoring Report
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Poland: International advocacy mission to assess media freedom reforms
Poland: International advocacy mission to assess media freedom reforms
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Hungary: Smear campaign against media intensifies threats to press freedom
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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.

Phone number

You can reach the office
via: +49 172/3674990

If you would like to visit the office of ECPMF, we encourage you to make an appointment in advance. We are not able to  receive guests without appointments.

Read ECPMF's strategy 2020-24

News

Job Opportunity: Managing Director at the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF)

Join ECPMF as a Managing Director in Leipzig. Lead media freedom initiatives across Europe. Apply by September 27th, 2024.

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ECPMF joins 60 organisations urging EU to act against Israel’s unprecedented journalist killings

ECPMF has joined 60 international organisations urging the EU to “take action against the Israeli authorities’ unprecedented killing of journalists and other violations of media freedom.”

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Armenian journalism in Turkey

“The cost of being able to speak freely about the Armenian Genocide was undoubtedly enormous.”

Vartan Estukyan is a dissident journalist in Turkey belonging to the Armenian community. He writes for the Agos newspaper, one of the few Turkish-Armenian media outlets in Turkey which aims to make the voices of Armenians in Turkey heard by the wider public.

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Afgan Sadygov arrested

Georgia: MFRR partners demand release of Azerbaijani journalist and urge Georgian authorities not to extradite him

The partner organisations of the MFRR call on the authorities in Georgia not to extradite journalist Afgan Sadygov to Azerbaijan and to release him from extradition detention.

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Projects and Programmes

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.
Opportunities for Journalists in Exile in Germany
Voices of Ukraine - Support programme to strengthening the resilience of independent media in Ukraine

Upcoming events

Latest reports on Mappingmediafreedom.org

On 20 July, 2016 Pavel Sheremet, a journalist working for online investigative newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda and Radio Vesti, was assassinated in a car explosion. Pavel Sheremet, 44, was a Belarusian...\nThe post #ReportIt: Five years of impunity – what the murder of Pavel Sheremet means for journalism in Ukraine appeared first on Mapping Media Freedom.
To read the interview in German, click here. On April 29, 2018, two neo-Nazis brutally attacked journalist Martin Mayer* and his colleague, while they were conducting a research trip in...\nThe post #ReportIt: “You can’t intimidate committed journalists with such acts of violence” appeared first on Mapping Media Freedom.
Um das Interview auf Englisch zu lesen, klicken Sie hier. Am 29. April 2018 haben zwei Neonazis den Journalisten Martin Mayer* und seinen Kollegen brutal attackiert, als die beiden Journalisten zu...\nThe post #ReportIt: “Mit solchen Gewalttaten kann man engagierte Journalist:innen nicht einschüchtern” appeared first on Mapping Media Freedom.
When leaving the TV studio in Amsterdam, crime reporter Peter de Vries was shot in the head. ECPMF spoke with Benedikt Strunz, expert for organised crime at German public broadcaster...\nThe post “When journalists can no longer report without fear, it affects us all”: An interview with investigative reporter Benedikt Strunz about the attack on Peter de Vries appeared first on Mapping Media Freedom.
Slovenia: After loss of funding – what happens now to Radio Študent, Europe’s oldest independent radio station? From 100,000 € to zero – that’s the sad result for the Slovenian...\nThe post #ReportIt: “We will continue, no one can change this” appeared first on Mapping Media Freedom.
Interview with freelance journalist Nina Böckmann In the dead of night, between 9 and 10 July 2019, local police in Leipzig, Germany arrived to deport a Syrian refugee. In his...\nThe post #ReportIt: The challenge of reporting in the throes of police violence, protests and deportation appeared first on Mapping Media Freedom.
ECPMF: Franziska Grillmeier, Sie arbeiten schon lange zum Thema Geflüchtete und Migration und wohnen auf der Insel Lesvos in Griechenland. Diese Insel ist seit einigen Jahren den meisten vor allem...\nThe post #ReportIt: Abbau der Pressefreiheit als Preis für die EU Grenzsicherung? appeared first on Mapping Media Freedom.
Interview with Franziska Grillmeier (translated) for World Refugee Day ECPMF: Franziska Grillmeier, you have been working on the topic of refugees and migration for a long time and live on...\nThe post #ReportIt: Reduction of press freedom as the price for EU border security? appeared first on Mapping Media Freedom.
  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....\nThe post #ReportIt: Sharing solidarity with journalists facing sexist online harassment appeared first on Mapping Media Freedom.
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,...\nThe post #ReportIt: “I had never felt so threatened while doing my work” – reporting on climate protests in Germany appeared first on Mapping Media Freedom.