This piece is published in collaboration with SME as part of a content series on threats to independent media in Central Europe. Read more. This article is available in Slovak on the website of daily SME. They would go to the bathroom and turn the water tap on, so the water filling the bathtub would […]

The International Press Institute (IPI) today joined with its Czech National Committee to call on the government in Prague to redesign its system for online press conferences during Covid-19 to ensure critical media outlets are given fair access for questioning government representatives. In the letter, sent today to Tünde Bartha, who manages the Office of […]

Lesen Sie diesen Artikel auf Deutsch Slovak mainstream media have stood at the forefront of public education about the dangers of the COVID-19 pandemic this year. With disinformation campaigns growing and pandemic getting worse, however, the media also face new challenges in their quest of protecting the truth. On September 27, a few weeks after the […]

Read in English Die slowakischen Massenmedien standen in diesem Jahr bei der Aufklärung der Öffentlichkeit über die Gefahren der COVID-19-Pandemie an vorderster Front. Da die Desinformationskampagnen zunehmen und die Pandemie immer schlimmer wird, stehen die Medien jedoch auch vor neuen Herausforderungen bei ihrem Streben, die Wahrheit zu verteidigen. Am 27. September, wenige Wochen nachdem die […]