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Paula Kennedy is the editor of the English-language section of the European Journalism Observatory. She previously worked for Index on Censorship, where she was the editor of Mapping Media Freedom (a project co-funded by the European Commission). Before that she was a foreign news editor for the BBC based at BBC Monitoring. There, she specialised in the media of Central and Eastern Europe, producing in-depth media environment guides for the Czech Republic and Hungary and writing regular media-related features for the BBC news website. She tweets under @PMKennedy123.
May 20, 2019 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Recent •
by Paula Kennedy
Most autocratic leaders do their utmost to maintain a tight grip over all sources of information in their country, but few in recent years have done this as systematically and as effectively as Hungary’s Viktor Orbán. The figures tell...
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February 18, 2019 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Press Freedom, Recent •
by Paula Kennedy
A new section of the global media watchdog International Press Institute (IPI) has been set up by a group of Czech journalists determined to tackle threats to media freedom in their country and to promote the cause of independent quality...
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