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Greece’s second city faces life without major local daily

Zur deutschen Version On the morning of Oct. 4, 2017, the one million residents of Thessaloniki, Greece, woke up in a city without a major local daily newspaper. The night before, the storied newspaper Makedonia and its weekly edition, Thessaloniki, had closed down after a long, dark period of conflict between the paper’s staff and […]

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Zweitgrößte Stadt Griechenlands ohne bedeutende lokale Tageszeitung

Read in English Am Morgen des 4. Oktober 2017 wachten die eine Million Einwohner von Thessaloniki, Griechenland, in einer Stadt ohne große lokale Tageszeitung auf. In der Nacht davor stellte die renommierte Zeitung Makedonia samt ihres Wochenblattes, Thessaloniki, nach einer langen, dunklen Periode des Konfliktes zwischen den Angestellten der Zeitung und dem Management um unbezahlte […]

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Future of press freedom in post-Mugabe Zimbabwe remains open

Three weeks after a military intervention ended the 37-year rule of autocratic former President Robert Mugabe, journalists and media experts in Zimbabwe say it is still too early to tell whether the political transition will ultimately herald a more open environment for the press. Under Mugabe, Zimbabwe was among the world’s most censored countries. The […]

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Q&A: Russian journalists facing ‘intolerable’ situation

Zur deutschen Version On Oct. 23, a man stabbed Russian radio host and Ekho Moskvy Deputy Editor-in-Chief Tatyana Felgenhauer in the throat at the radio station’s offices in central Moscow. Felgenhauer survived the attack, but only after spending the next few days in a medically induced coma. Authorities identified the attacker as a Russian-IsraeIi citizen […]

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