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Doing their masters’ bidding: Media smear campaigns in central and eastern Europe
Unpatriotic behaviour. Sedition. Being in the pay of shadowy external forces. Faking a neo-Nazi event. These are just a few of the charges that have recently been levelled against independent journalists by pro-government media outlets in several central and eastern European countries.
Spain: “Purge” at state-owned RTVE following political pressure
The reform of Spanish public television and radio RTVE exposes how political interests dominate the corporation
Austria: A nation shrouded in secrecy
In an email sent to all regional police departments on 24 September 2018, Austria’s Ministry of the Interior suggested limiting communication with “certain media outlets”, including the weekly news magazine Falter and the daily newspaper Der Standard
Letter: Serbian media facing “very difficult” situation
Five Serbian media associations have written to Index on Censorship to raise their concerns about the media environment in the country.
Maltese journalist Caroline Muscat continues in the spirit of her murdered colleague Daphne Caruana Galizia
On 16 October 2017 Malta’s most important investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered in Malta. Three men will stand trial for carrying out the crime but the masterminds remain untouched, rendering Malta an unsafe place for independent journalists. Journalist Caroline Muscat refuses to get distracted by that.
Too dangerous to stay: Russia’s journalists are leaving the country
A country with the largest territory in the world and a turbulent modern history, Russia is home to one of the most difficult media landscapes. Independent media has been around for less than three years, and in that time censorship has been tightening its grip with new-found strength.
Iron bars, automatic gunfire and impunity stalk Albania’s journalists
“I will never stop pushing them to bring the authors of the assault on me to justice since this is not a case lacking in information”
Violence, corruption and censorship: The realities of being a journalist in Bulgaria
Under increasing pressure from the government and a media environment becoming more and more censored, journalists within Bulgaria are finding themselves in danger
Far right steps up anti-media campaign ahead of Swedish election
Sweden baked in record temperatures this summer, matched only by the increasingly heated political climate as it gears up for an unprecedentedly bitter and divisive general election