Category Press release
27 Sep

IJ4EU Impact Award 2025 winners announced

Journalists behind hard-hitting investigations into soaring European medicine prices, Israeli attacks on Palestinian reporters, and EU complicity in migrant expulsions in North Africa have won the 2025 IJ4EU Impact Awards.

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9 Sep

Shelter City Leipzig startet offiziell: Stärkung des Schutzes von internationalen Journalist*innen und Medienschaffenden in Sachsen

Wir freuen uns, bekanntgeben zu können, dass die Stadt Leipzig gemeinsam mit dem Europäischen Zentrum für Presse- und Medienfreiheit (ECPMF) Shelter City Leipzig gründet. Mit Unterzeichnung der Absichtserklärung mit Justice & Peace wird eine strategische Partnerschaft besiegelt, die den Schutz und die Unterstützung gefährdeter Journalist*innen und Medienschaffenden in Europa nachhaltig stärken soll.

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9 Sep

Shelter City Leipzig officially launches: strengthening protection of international journalists and media workers in Saxony

We are happy to announce that the City of Leipzig, together with ECPMF, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Justice & Peace to establish Shelter City Leipzig and to launch a strategic partnership aimed at strengthening the support of journalists at risk in Europe.

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29 Jul

Croatia: International fact-finding mission to assess status of press freedom

The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partners will conduct an international mission to assess the current state of press freedom and safety of journalists in Croatia.

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16 Jul

Georgia: A crisis point for press freedom

Today, ECPMF publishes a report detailing the findings of its fact-finding mission to Tbilisi, Georgia, which paint a picture of independent media in the midst of an existential crisis.

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27 Jun

Kosovo: Draft law on Independent Media Commission might endanger its political independence

If the draft law is approved, the Independent Media Commission will be politically captured and online media will be subjected to chaotic regulation.

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18 Jun

Save the Date – UNCOVERED Conference 2024

Back for a fifth year, IJ4EU’s UNCOVERED Conference will join forces in September 2024 with the annual gathering of the Incubator for Media Education and Development (iMEdD) in Athens.

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30 May

Romania: Super election year calls for press freedom assessment

A coalition of media freedom organisations will conduct a mission to Bucharest on 17-18 June 2024 to assess key challenges amid Romania’s super election year.

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8 May

MFRR to conduct a mission to Italy amid worsening state of media freedom in the country

The deteriorating state of press freedom in Italy has prompted the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) consortium to organise an urgent mission to Rome on May 16 and 17.

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25 Apr

Georgia: Independent journalism facing an existential threat

A delegation from ECPMF recently concluded a fact-finding trip to Tbilisi, Georgia, where media freedom is in under severe threat.

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