August 5, 2016 •
Media and Politics, Press Freedom, Recent •
by Ceren Sozeri
A week before the recent coup attempt in Turkey a group of journalists launched a campaign to defend press freedom entitled “I am a journalist! Journalism is not a crime!”. Participating newspapers and online news portals...
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April 20, 2016 •
Recent •
by EJO
There has been a ‘deep and disturbing’ decline in respect for media freedom on every continent over the last three years, according to the latest edition of the World Press Freedom Index, published today by Reporters Without Borders....
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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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June 15, 2012 •
Press Freedom •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
There’s been a recent revival of trials attempting to integrate Turkey into the EU, yet advocates of such an action should perhaps take a closer look. Unfortunately, Western media rarely report on the harassment doled out to members of...
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