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13 Jun

Female sport reporters face floods of sexist insults over World Cup coverage

By Renata Rat – 13.06.2019 When Claudia Neumann, a German sports journalist, commentated on a World Cup football match as the first female reporter ever in 2018, she experienced a flood of heavy sexist insults via social media. “It was just horrible”, said Neumann. Her TV channel, the German public broadcaster ZDF, even filed charges against two […]

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25 May

Checks and balances? Peter Omtzigt’s report on the situation in Malta

By Renata Rat – 25.06.2019 Special Rapporteur Pieter Omtzigt’s report on the rule of law in Malta is damning. Prompted by the 2017 car bomb assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, it finds serious deficiencies.The report is being presented at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on 26. June 2019. Media freedom […]

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30 Apr

#ivote4pressfreedom because democracy needs free media

Here at the ECPMF, we are urging all Europeans to vote for press freedom. That's why we are creating a hashtag, campaign and special online tool - #ivote4pressfreedom.

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16 Apr

Court decides police were wrong to refuse journalist accreditation for political event

By Jane Whyatt – 16.04.2019 The High Court in London has ruled that police wrongly classed a political reporter as a security risk because he was present when activists released cockroaches and locusts into a restaurant.  The police assessment: ’Whether or not he was there as a journalist…. he placed the public at risk’. The […]

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10 Apr

Serbia: conference on impunity for crimes against journalists aims to calm protests and achieve justice

By Renata Rat – 10.04.2019 The Journalists’ Association of Serbia (UNS) and Serbian public broadcaster Radio Televizija Srbije (RTS) are organising an international conference to commemorate the bombing of RTS by NATO airplanes during the Kosovo War in 1999. Ljiljana Smajlović describes how the media report on refugees in Serbia, and how some journalists have […]

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4 Apr

Twenty years after the murder of Serbian journalist Slavko Ćuruvija, the trial ends

By Renata Rat – 04.04.2019 It was Easter Sunday April 11th, 1999. The NATO bombs started falling on Serbia a month ago. Slavko Ćuruvija and his partner return home from Easter lunch. In front of their home two masked men approach Ćuruvija and shoot him dead. Fifteen years later, in 2014, the Serbian prosecutor’s office indentified four […]

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13 Mar

Women investigative journalists battle sexism to do it their own way

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12 Mar

Victory! EU directive finally protects whistleblowers

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31 Jul

SLAPP: the background of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation

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20 Mar

ECPMF legal aid in 2017: from Turkey to Azerbaijan and Italy

20.03.2018 The ECPMF offers and coordinates legal support on matters related to free speech for individuals and organisations working in countries located in Europe. Threats to the life, safety, wellbeing and security of journalists and media organisations remain a serious concern in many European countries. Looking at recent actions of several governments passing laws that […]

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