This article forms part of the IPI series “Contending with ‘Fake News’: Notes from the Field”, which examines the particular dynamic around the “fake news” debate in five EU countries: Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland and Spain. It offers a look at the sources, styles and goals of disinformation in each country as well as […]

Media experts and journalists in Poland say that intentionally misleading stories are currently not an everyday occurrence in the country, but they warn that content from the government-controlled public broadcaster, often only a very thin line away from outright propaganda, is making matters worse. Over the past two years, Poland has been among the countries […]

Christmas of 2014 found Antonis Repanas, a well-known and respected sports journalist in Thessaloniki, Greece, facing a dead end. He had just been fired by one of the biggest national newspapers in Greece, Ta Nea. Making matters worse, Thessaloniki’s media industry had been hit hard: there were hardly any serious opportunities for a professional journalist. […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined 13 other international media freedom organisations calling on the Council of Europe to appoint a special rapporteur on the case of Malta’s prominent investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, killed by a remote-controlled bomb in her car as she left her home on Oct. 16, 2017. The joint statement […]