MEDIA FREEDOM

Media freedom is under threat worldwide. Journalists are threatened, jailed and even killed simply for doing their job.

Index on Censorship documents threats to media freedom in Europe through a monitoring project and campaigns against laws that stifle journalists’ work. We also publish an award-winning magazine featuring work by and about censored journalists.

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Monitoring and Advocating for Media Freedom

Monitoring threats, limitations and violations related to media freedom in Azerbaijan, Belarus, Russia, Turkey and Ukraine

Identifying and analysing issues, trends and drivers and exploring possible response options and opportunities for advocating media freedom

U.S. Press Freedom Tracker

The U.S. Press Freedom Tracker is a nonpartisan website on the number of press freedom violations in the United States. Index on Censorship is part of the coalition of organisations supporting the effort.

Global Journalist

Project Exile: Turkish journalist still fearful in Germany

Turkish journalist Zübeyde Sari began her career in 2009. By 2018, following President Erdogan's crack down on the media, she was forced to flee.
17 Jan 2020

Index on Censorship, Reporters Without Borders UK and Transparency International UK urge Azerbaijan to lift journalist’s travel ban
15 Jan 2020

Urgent reforms needed to protect journalists from vexatious legal threats: Index on Censorship
03 Jan 2020

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Women journalists caught in middle of Afghanistan's nightmareMany journalists – women in particular – have fled the Taliban or are in hiding from t...17 Dec 2021 MAGAZINE

Daphne Caruana Galizia: Four years on from her murder, Malta must be held to accountIndex joins the Maltese community, Reporters without Borders, PEN International and others...16 Oct 2021 NEWS

Index condemns lawsuits brought by ENRC against Tom BurgisWe join with 14 other organisations to condemn legal action against the journalist, the Fi...08 Oct 2021 STATEMENT

Members of the LGBTQ+ community sign letter calling for reform to Online Safety Bill01 Sep 2021 MEDIA FREEDOM

"You'll Never Walk Alone": The words that comfort Andrei Aliaksandrau10 Aug 2021 NEWS

Contents - Whistleblowers: the lifeblood of democracy26 Jul 2021 MAGAZINE

It's not just Trump

US media freedom fraying at the edges

A review of threats to press freedom in the United States.