LATEST NEWS

Latest News and Monitoring from Local Media Case Studies

Ukraine: 1000 days later, journalists continue their fight

19 November 2024 marks 1000 days since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022. Marking this grim milestone, MFRR partners remember those journalists who have lost their lives reporting on Russia’s war of aggression. We also express our solidarity with those who continue to risk their lives to bring us […]

Read More

Montenegro: justice for journalist Ana Raičković

The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partners strongly condemn the verbal and physical attack on Ana Raičković, editor of the daily Pobjeda, as well as the attack on her family members. The MFRR partners welcome the swift reaction of the Montenegro Basic State Prosecutor’s Office (ODT), which identified and detained four suspects on charges of […]

Read More

Azerbaijan: As COP29 is held in Baku, repression against journalists continues

The IPI global network is alarmed by the repression of independent journalists in Azerbaijan, the recent scale of which is unsettling even in the context of the country’s grim political reality. The intensity of this repression – and the impunity for violence against journalists – is all the more striking as the COP29 global climate […]

Read More

IPI and partners launch platform to track disinformation narratives against journalists

The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) has teamed up with Croatian fact-checking outlet Faktograf and German daily taz to launch an innovative platform documenting disinformation campaigns targeting journalists and media houses in Europe. The Observatory of Disinformation Narratives Against the Media is part of Decoding the Disinformation Playbook, a joint initiative by the three organizations […]

Read More