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Political advertising has ramped up in the U.S. ahead of the country’s midterm congressional elections on November 8. According to campaign finance tracker OpenSecrets, over US$9 billion will be spent...

Regulatory Authority for Electronic Media (REM) Council chair Olivera Zekic opened Monday public talks with the representatives of the four television stations that have applied for the fifth national broadcasting...

Danas daily editor in chief Dragoljub Petrovic received an email threatening violence against that independent newspaper and its staff.   The email sent from a webmail service threatened “salvos of...

A court in Serbia headed by Judge Natasa Petricevic Milisavljevic fined investigative media outlet KRIK for publishing news from the trial of the criminal group, “Jotka’s group”, mentioning Bratislav Gasic,...

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) is worried by the results of a new study by the Platform for Investigative Journalism and Analysis (PINA). The results reveal an important issue...

On 25 October 2022, eleven journalists were arrested following raids on their homes in the cities of Ankara, Istanbul, Van, Diyarbakir, Urfa and Mardin in Turkey. The International and European...

A reporter of the investigative outlet KRIK risks a prison sentence over a piece exposing secret business practices of a powerful businessman close to the Serbian President. While monitoring the...

Roma people are usually only given space in the media when it is either World Roma Day or through media coverage of government support programmes for the Roma community. Even...

Turkey’s parliament yesterday approved a tough new media law that provides for up to three years in prison for journalists and social media users spreading false or misleading information. The...

The Minsk Regional Court sentenced journalists of the oldest independent news agency BelaPAN to long terms of imprisonment.   Andrei Aliaksandrau, former deputy director of the news agency, was sentenced...

To mark World Day for Decent Work (WDDW) on 7 October the International Federation of journalists (IFJ), the world’s largest organisation of journalists, is joining the International Trade Union Confederation’s...

The campaign for a new binding international instrument dedicated to the safety of journalists has been formally launched at the 51st session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva....