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On 24 July 2024, the European Commission published its annual Rule of Law Report, which includes the assessment of press freedom and media pluralism in Europe. This fifth edition is...
EFJ Freelance Expert Group (FREG) co-chairs, Renske Heddema (Dutch union of journalists – NVJ) and Oddrun Mitbø (Norwegian union of journalists – NJ) contributed to the open letter below, outlining...
On 23 July 2024, a coalition of 13 international and European organisations representing journalists, creators, authors, artists, performers and creative workers, including the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), sent a...
On 19 July, a Russian court has sentenced US-Russian journalist Alsu Kurmasheva to six and a half years in prison for spreading so-called “false information” about the military. Her employer,...
The undersigned organisations express deep concerns about the physical attacks targeting Melita Vrsaljko, a journalist working for the Croatian fact-checking website Faktograf.hr and the Climate Portal. Vrsaljko was assaulted twice...
Media outlets in the country are increasingly exposed to cyber attacks, online threats and manipulations. We talked about digital security and its impact on independent journalism in Serbia with Bojan...
After the re-appointment of Ursula von der Leyen as President of the European Commission, the media and journalistic organizations sent a letter to the newly elected President. The letter aims...
The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) said N1 employees are receiving new threats and that over 13 attacks against journalists have been recorded since January. “This must stop now!...
Intimidatory lawsuits intended to silence journalists and media freedom activists by draining their resources have proliferated in Serbia, where there is no specific legislation to curb aggressive litigation by the...
On 29 June, as journalist Thomas Dietrich was about to publish an investigation entitled “When Macron protects Marine Le Pen’s financier” for online media OFF Investigation, he received a chilling...
Serbian Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabic claimed on Tuesday that N1 was targeting her but did not specify how. “I’m not targeting anyone, you’re targeting me,” Brnabic said in response...
The United Nations Special Rapporteur for freedom of expression and opinion Irene Khan said in a report on Serbia that the Serbian electronic media watchdog (REM) used its powers only...