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17 Sep

Training Grants for Ukrainian Media

As part of its Voices of Ukraine Programme, ECPMF offers a total of 100.000 EUR in grants to support regional, local, and hyperlocal media outlets located near Ukraine’s frontlines.

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10 Sep

756 media freedom alerts in first six months of 2024 – MFRR Monitoring Report

The partners from the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) today publishes the latest edition of its Monitoring Report which documents all press freedom violations recorded from January to June 2024.

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9 Sep

Poland: International advocacy mission to assess media freedom reforms

The 2024 MFRR mission will assess media freedom reforms in Poland, focusing on public service broadcasting, media pluralism, and anti-SLAPP measures.

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9 Sep

Hungary: Smear campaign against media intensifies threats to press freedom

Pro-government media in Hungary intensifies its attacks on independent outlets like 444.hu, accusing them of foreign-led information warfare. Concerns about press freedom grow as the government uses the Sovereignty Protection Act to investigate critical voices.

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2 Sep

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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26 Aug

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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14 Aug

“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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9 Aug

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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2 Aug

Italy: MFRR calls for constructive dialogue on media freedom recommendations

The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partners stand in solidarity with journalists in Italy and call for an immediate end to all forms of attacks against them. We encourage all key stakeholders, including institutional ones, to join forces in enhancing the protection of journalists and media professionals. 

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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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