October 10, 2014 •
Media and Politics, Press Freedom, Specialist Journalism •
by Caroline Lees
European law protecting the right of journalists to have confidential sources is being undermined by police in Britain, according to the UK’s National Union of Journalists (NUJ). The NUJ has accused police of spying on reporters by...
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October 3, 2014 •
Media and Politics •
by Dariya Orlova
A record number of journalists in Ukraine are planning to stand for parliament in the country’s forthcoming election, saying that “transforming the system from within” will be more effective than simply criticising politicians....
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September 30, 2014 •
Media and Politics, Press Freedom •
by Roman Hájek and Sandra Štefaniková
On 15 September, the first issue of Reporter, a new Czech weekly, was launched by Robert Casensky, former editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper, Mlada fronta Dnes. Casensky hopes the new magazine could become the Czech version of The...
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September 25, 2014 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics •
by Stefan Antonov
The business partnership that has controlled most of Bulgaria’s media for the past seven years has split, following a reported dispute between the two oligarchs behind it. One, Tsvetan Vassilev, is in Serbia, awaiting extradition to...
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August 20, 2014 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics, Research, Specialist Journalism •
by Paulina Pacula
Europe’s media often ignores, or reports negatively, issues faced by minority groups and indigenous people, such as Crimean Tatars and Roma, according to human rights groups....
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July 22, 2014 •
Digital News, Press Freedom •
by Caroline Lees
An EU ruling, giving individuals the ‘right to be forgotten’ on the internet, has been criticized by UK journalists after Google deleted links to their articles from its search engine. Robert Peston, BBC News economics editor, last...
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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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June 12, 2014 •
Ethics and Quality, Media and Politics •
by Thomas Schmidt
When the US Supreme Court recently turned down an appeal from James Risen, a Pulitzer-Prize winning reporter for the New York Times, it effectively declined to settle a long-simmering debate about the legal consequences of reporting leaks....
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