Mapping Media Freedom – a major Index on Censorship project and a joint undertaking with the European Federation of Journalists and Reporters Without Borders, partially funded by the European Commission – covers 42 countries, including all EU member states, plus Bosnia, Iceland, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Norway, Serbia, Turkey, Albania along with Ukraine, Belarus and Russia in (added in April 2015), and Azerbaijan (added in February 2016). The platform was launched in May 2014 and has recorded over 3,000 incidents threatening media freedom.
Violations, censorship and needs of threatened journalists in Europe
Journalists and media workers are confronting relentless pressure simply for doing their job. Mapping Media Freedom identifies threats, violations and limitations faced by members of the press throughout European Union member states, candidates for entry and neighbouring countries. Learn more.
Spain: “Purge” at state-owned RTVE following political pressure

Austria: A nation shrouded in secrecy

No impunity: Who killed journalist Pavel Shemeret?

Maltese journalist Caroline Muscat continues in the spirit of her murdered colleague Daphne Caruana Galizia

Too dangerous to stay: Russia’s journalists are leaving the country

Iron bars, automatic gunfire and impunity stalk Albania’s journalists

Violence, corruption and censorship: The realities of being a journalist in Bulgaria

Journalism in Exile: “Turkey had turned into hell for journalism”

After three decades of relative freedom, Lithuania’s media is is being reined in

Denmark: Cuts to funding threaten the future of DR’s public service journalism

Journalism in Exile: Editor uses social media to pressure Azerbaijan’s government

Turkey: Kurds in Mus “working behind the adversary’s lines while still living in their hometown”
