Central Europe Independent Media Network

Leading independent media in Bulgaria, Czechia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia are coming together to report about the growing threats to press freedom and independent media in the region.

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Disinformation made in Czechoslovakia

[Note: this piece is based on a project conducted by HlidaciPes and Aktuality.sk, both mem…

Branding independent newsrooms as foreign agents, and threatening them with fina...

[The following is a guest article by Eva Bognár of the Mediaforum association, Hungary] .…

IPI and media organizations from across Central and Eastern Europe express their...

We, the undersigned media and journalists’ organizations, express our support for Peter …

Latest IPI statements on Bulgaria

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Bulgaria Minister urged to drop defamation lawsuit

The Media Freedom Rapid Response consortium partners criticize the criminal defamation law…

IPI Central Europe Network: Leading editors call for strong EMFA

Leading editors from within the International Press Institute’s (IPI) Central Europe Ind…

Latest IPI statements on Czech Republic

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Disinformation made in Czechoslovakia

[Note: this piece is based on a project conducted by HlidaciPes and Aktuality.sk, both mem…

2024 rule of law report: media freedom organizations urge the EU to enforce stro...

The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) coalition welcomes the publication of the 2024 Eur…

Czech Republic: The rise and rise of Daniel Křetínský

In the beginning there was a woman. To be more precise, there were two women, classmates f…

Latest IPI statements on Hungary

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Hungary: Smear campaign against media intensifies threats to press freedom

A new smear campaign targeting Hungarian media outlet 444.hu and its international journal…

2024 rule of law report: media freedom organizations urge the EU to enforce stro...

The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) coalition welcomes the publication of the 2024 Eur…

The rise of KESMA: How Orbán’s allies bought up Hungary’s media

On a Wednesday morning in November 2018, Hungarian lawyer József Tamás Kertész was hard…

Latest IPI statements on Poland

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More ambitious reform needed to secure media freedom in Poland

The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) consortium completed a two-day mission to Poland, …

Poland: International advocacy mission to assess media freedom reforms

On 16 and 17 September, the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partners will conduct an i…

Latest IPI statements on Romania

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Romania: ensuring justice for Emilia Șercan

The International Press Institute (IPI) and a group of international organizations sent a …

Romania: TAZ and IPI release case study on disinformation and harassment against...

Adina Marincea, a Romanian journalist known for her investigative reporting on far-right e…

2024 rule of law report: media freedom organizations urge the EU to enforce stro...

The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) coalition welcomes the publication of the 2024 Eur…

Latest IPI statements on Slovakia

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Disinformation made in Czechoslovakia

[Note: this piece is based on a project conducted by HlidaciPes and Aktuality.sk, both mem…

Mission findings: Media freedom in Slovakia under threat 

A coalition of international press freedom, freedom of expression, and journalists organiz…

IPI joins press freedom mission to Slovakia amid growing concerns

On November 25–26, the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partners will conduct a solid…

Latest IPI statements on Slovenia

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IPI Central Europe Network: Leading editors call for strong EMFA

Leading editors from within the International Press Institute’s (IPI) Central Europe Ind…

Slovenia: Media freedom groups welcome court ruling on RTV SLO reform

The International Press Institute (IPI) and the undersigned members of the Media Freedom R…

MFRR partners document 813 media freedom violations in Europe in 2022

IPI joins its partners in the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) in publishing the late…

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