November 28, 2016 •
Ethics and Quality, Latest stories, Press Freedom •
by Anamaria Nicola
Over the past 16 years, a team of four sports journalists at Romania’s last remaining print sports newspaper, Gazeta Sporturilor, has been responsible for some of the country’s most devastating investigative journalism. Their articles...
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July 4, 2014 •
Press Freedom •
by Liga Ozolina
The decision by Cairo’s court to sentenced three Al-Jazeera English (AJE) journalists – Mohamed Fadel Fahmy, Baher Mohamed and Peter Greste has shocked journalists around the world. It has raised questions about the independence of the...
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June 24, 2014 •
Press Freedom, Specialist Journalism •
by Evgeniya Boklage
This article has been updated. Details below. Alexander Sodiqov a Tajik blogger at Global Voices and PhD candidate at the University of Toronto was detained in Tajikistan on June 16, in a case that raises issues of freedom of expression...
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May 12, 2014 •
Press Freedom, Research •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
Internet gurus and serious researchers have had great expectations that the internet will give us new freedoms and the potential for democratization. Sadly, the empirical findings provided by two American researchers, Karin Deutsch...
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July 26, 2013 •
Press Freedom •
by Meera Selva
Governments in 2012 have attacked journalists, created new laws to kill off new independent digital media, and sparked off a huge diplomatic row over teddy bears, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)...
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March 4, 2013 •
Press Freedom •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
In a recent post we discussed the merits and limits of press freedom rankings. One of the rather sad facts is that newsrooms rarely ask how such rankings are created. Researchers seem to be more interested in this essential methodological...
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February 8, 2013 •
Press Freedom •
by Bianca Soldani
Deep skepticism surrounds the new media freedom reforms passed earlier this year in Turkmenistan. The first such law ever to be passed by the nation, it promises freedom of expression and a ban on all media censorship, but is generally...
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October 19, 2012 •
Press Freedom •
by Michael Wise
Third-annual report brings news of progress despite the prevalence of new and sophisticated threats to Internet freedom. Freedom House’s newest report, “Freedom on the net 2012: A global assessment of Internet and digital media,”...
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September 30, 2012 •
Press Freedom •
by Dariya Orlova and Victoria Sydorenko
Ukrainian journalists bemoan deteriorating media freedom as new challenges complicate the issue. As Ukraine’s hosting duties began for the 64th World Newspaper Congress (WNC) in early September, the country’s unstable media...
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