Amid the continuing and often controversial evolution of media ownership structures in the Visegrád region, several high-profile Slovak properties are now up for sale. The changes look poised to alter the public sphere in Slovakia – for better or worse – for years to come. Reflecting a prevailing trend throughout much of Central and Eastern Europe, […]

Recent verbal attacks on Albania’s media by Prime Minister Edi Rama have again raised concerns over respect for media independence in the country, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. Last Thursday, Rama opened a two-day, EU-organised media conference in Tirana with a speech accusing his country’s media of violating and invading individuals’ dignity “from […]

Read in English Seit Ungarns Premierminister Viktor Orbán 2010 zum zweiten Mal an die Macht kam, hat er auch international die Aufmerksamkeit auf die Versuche gelenkt, Ungarns kritische Medien zum Schweigen zu bringen. Weniger bekannt ist allerdings, dass die ungarische Regierung mit öffentlichen Mitteln eine gut geölte Medienmaschinerie errichtet hat, die der Erzeugung von Desinformation […]

Zur deutschen Version Online freedom continues to decline in Turkey, leading to growing self-censorship by its journalists. Twitter’s latest biannual Transparency Report, covering the first half of this year, showed that Turkish authorities continued to make the most requests to the website to remove or withhold content, accounting for approximately 45 percent of all requests […]