No matter how much the EU tries to prove otherwise, imagining itself as the guardian of free media, the fact is not all journalists in the EU enjoy full democratic...
Tag - Reporters Without Borders
You can read all of our coverage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, including explainers and articles offering context and background information here...
In just one country in the emerging Europe region does Reporters Sans Frontières class the press freedom situation as “good”: Estonia. In six others it is...
Eyebrows have been raised across Europe by a deal that will see an investment firm with ties to Hungary’s eurosceptic PM Viktor Orbán buy pan-European news...
A bipartisan group of US senators have warned the Polish government against the adoption of a new media law that they say threatens a major US investor in the country...
Hungary’s PM Viktor Orbán finds himself some rather unsavoury company on a new list of rogue leaders clamping down on press freedom. Hungarian Prime Minister...
Authorities in Belarus this week intensified their repression of independent media, shutting down the country’s largest news portal, TUT.by. The largest and most...
A recent resolution from the European Parliament and a report by the US State Department have condemned the state of media freedom in Serbia, as well as raising the...
There has been a worrying fall in the level of trust that Serbian citizens have in the democratic process, and its ability to bring about change. Serbia’s...
The Czech billionaire Petr Kellner and his PPF Group are set to make a play for the Serbian TV and broadband market, if regulatory bodies in the country approve a...
Journalists are still being detained in Belarus, months after a rigged presidential election. Among the latest to have been arrested is Yulia Slutskaya, founder of the...
A free and independent press is a must for a free society, and perhaps that’s the biggest lesson to be learned in the post-Donald Trump world of fake news and...
In an ideal world and in an ideal democracy, the media plays a crucial role as watchdog. It provides checks and balances and is the voice of scrutiny. It holds the...