June 23, 2023 •
Censorship, Comment, Press Freedom, Recent •
by Tina Bettels
Tu Dortmund University academic Tina Bettels-Schwabbauer speaks with Prof. Dr William Tayeebwa from Makerere University in Kampala about press freedom in Uganda....
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November 26, 2018 •
Censorship, Media and Politics, Press Freedom •
by Raluca Radu
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was meant to protect and empower all EU citizens’ data privacy. Here is how it can be abused to threaten journalists....
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October 22, 2018 •
Media and Politics, Press Freedom •
by Oleksandr Yaroshchuk
The post-Soviet space remains dangerous for journalists. Authoritarian regimes and military conflicts make life hard for reporters, free and open media are increasingly under threat. Oleksandr Yaroshchuk offers a worrying analysis...
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April 26, 2018 •
Censorship, Press Freedom, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Al-Sharmani Amani
Yemen was once seen as a “happy” country. Nowadays it’s a war zone. Journalists reporting from the country face multiple challenges, ranging from psychological trauma to kidnapping and death threats. And yet, some of them don’t...
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March 12, 2018 •
Media and Politics, Press Freedom, Recent, Specialist Journalism •
by Ido Liven
Over the past few years Poland has been increasingly on the international news agenda. Much of this coverage comes from western media outlets such as Reuters, Bloomberg, The Guardian and others who have journalists or freelance...
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March 2, 2018 •
Media and Politics, Press Freedom, Recent •
by Martina Topinkova
The Czech media landscape has significantly changed over the last five years. A wealth of new and independent journalistic projects – fact checkers, independent outlets and charities – has shot up, adding to the existing media...
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October 21, 2013 •
Specialist Journalism •
by Miruna Munteanu
When you have to rely on foreign press to learn about something happening in your country, national media is in deep trouble. That’s precisely what happened last month, when thousands of Romanians hit the streets to protest against the...
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May 17, 2013 •
Press Freedom •
by Ido Liven
On a rather ordinary June day in 2010 a news item appeared on Ynet, Israel’s most popular news website. The headline read “Who Are You, Mister X? ‘The Prisoner With No Name And Identity’.” Quoting an unnamed...
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April 23, 2013 •
Digital News •
by Antonio Rossano
A new website has harnessed the power of data journalism to illustrate how, when and where journalists have been threatened in Italy. Italian graphic designer Isacco Chiaf and journalists Jacopo Ottaviani and Andrea Fama have used data...
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