Category ECPMF
13 Feb

Slovakia: Press freedom groups to visit Bratislava for Ján Kuciak murder anniversary

Between 20 and 21 February 2023, a delegation of international media freedom organisations will conduct a joint mission to Bratislava to mark the five-year anniversary of the killing of Slovak investigative journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová.

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7 Feb

813 media freedom violations in 12 months – MFRR Monitoring Report 2022

Partners of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) have published the latest MFRR Monitoring Report, analysing the 813 media freedom violations recorded in Europe in 2022.

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25 Jan

MFRR Summit 2023: Press Freedom on the Line

The MFRR Summit is back, and this year we’re holding our conference under the title of “Press Freedom on the Line” from 29 – 31 March 2023.

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20 Jan

Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media – Call for Nominations

Every year, the Media Foundation of Sparkasse Leipzig awards its “Prize for the Freedom and Future of the Media”, which is endowed with €20,000, to a distinguished journalist, publisher, or media institution.

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18 Jan

Feindbild Journalist – Monitoring Lokaljournalismus

Together with the German Federal Association of Digital Publishers and Newspaper Publishers (BDZV), ECPMF has launched a new project to monitor attacks on local journalists titled “Feindbild Journalist – Monitoring Lokaljournalismus”.

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12 Jan

IJ4EU fund opens new calls for cross-border investigative journalism

The Investigative Journalism for Europe (IJ4EU) fund today, January 12, opened two new calls for cross-border investigative journalism projects in the European Union and EU candidate countries.

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4 Jan

“If I had stayed in Volnovakha, I would have ended up in jail” – Lidia Tarash, Voices of Ukraine

Lidia Tarash is a journalist from Volnovakha, a city in the Donetsk region. In August 2022, she became one of 120 fellows of the Voices of Ukraine programme, which provides emergency stipends to Ukrainian journalists.

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28 Dec

Kosovo: ECPMF and EFJ welcome new support for Afghan journalists

In collaboration with the Government of Kosovo, EFJ and AJK, ECPMF will host five journalists fleeing persecution in Afghanistan.

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27 Dec

“Mentally we are still in Ukraine” – Iryna Synelnyk, Ukrainian Journalist-in-Residence

Interview with Iryna Synelnyk, Ukrainian Journalist-in-Residence in Kosovo.

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20 Dec

The RE:Cover Conference – How Russia’s War in Ukraine Changes Journalism

From 09 – 11 December, more than 150 journalists, experts, and politicians gathered in Bratislava, Slovakia for the RE:Cover Conference, organised by ECPMF, the former coordinators of the project Scoop, and the Regional Press Development Institute.

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