Each week, Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project identifies an abundance of verified threats, violations and limitations
Mapping Media Freedom: Week in focus
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CATEGORY: Europe and Central Asia
Swift changes to media landscape set Poland further down the partisan road
Poland has undergone rapid changes since the right-wing Law and Justice Party (PiS) won the overall majority in the Sejm
Slovenia: How a neo-Nazi exposé almost landed a journalist in jail
Mapping Media Freedom correspondent Mitra Nazar speaks to journalist Anuska Delic about the article that almost landed her in prison for three years
Lord Avebury, Liberal Democrat peer and human rights defender, dies at 87
Index on Censorship is saddened to hear of the death of Eric Avebury, a staunch defender of human rights
Portugal: Waves of layoffs hollow out press
The closing months of 2015 were enough to prove that Portuguese journalism is facing a serious challenge from which it probably won’t emerge the same
European democracies fail to live up to their own standards on freedom of the press
Freedom of the press has always been a pretty reliable litmus test for the state of any democracy. However, as Index on Censorship’s Mapping Media Freedom project shows
France: “Some think one cannot be an Arab and a journalist”
Mapping Media Freedom correspondent Valeria Costa-Kostritsky talks to reporters about the state of ethnic diversity in French journalism
Report: Pressure on media professionals and pluralism growing
Pressure on Europe’s journalists as they do their jobs saw no let up during the fourth quarter of 2015, according to a survey of verified incidents of violations reported to Index on Censorship’s project Mapping Media Freedom.
Azerbaijan: Journalist Seymur Hezi marks one year in prison
On the anniversary of Azerbaijani journalist Seymur Hezi’s sentencing to five years imprisonment for “aggravated hooliganism,” the country
Russia: Media freedom curtailed under veneer of legality
Russia’s media freedom has declined under the government of Vladimir Putin. The president and his allies have used a cloak of legislative legitimacy to target