Newspaper reporter Anatoly Adamchuk was beaten unconscious on Monday, making him the second journalist to be brutally attacked in Russia within 48 hours. Adamchuk, of Zhukovskie Vesti, was beaten by two unidentified men, while leaving his office in the early morning. He was treated for head trauma at the hospital.Russia’s Interior Ministry has meanwhile alleged […]

The need to reform Italy’s public broadcaster RAI and to promote editorial independence in the country’s newspapers were some of the major problems identified by representatives of media and journalists associations with whom an IPI delegation met on Tuesday in Rome. The visit of the IPI delegation, including IPI Vice-Chairman and former Assistant Managing Editor […]

Hungary’s parliament last week passed another element of a controversial media reform package which will force journalists to identify their sources in stories involving national security and public safety. The law comes into effect on 1 January 2011. If faced with judicial action, journalists would only be able to keep their source secret if such […]

The Steering Committe of the Brussels-based European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) on Friday 5 November lent its full support to a campaign by the Turkish ‘Freedom for Journalists Platform which seeks the release of all journalists currently imprisoned in Turkey. EFJ representatives, along with their colleagues from the NUJ branch and the AGJPB, demonstrated in […]