Amidst the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Spain’s far-right party Vox last week introduced a bill to Parliament which aims to regulate fact-checking news outlets in Spain. The text, published on July 17, explicitly forbids the verification of any statement on “social media, blogs, generic websites, print, online outlets and broadcasters“ unless the media organization publicly states […]

Zur deutschen Version. When the news finally broke on March 12 that Slovenia was going to officially declare Covid-19 as an epidemic, the Infodrom production team had just finished taping up programme’s latest episode. Produced by RTV Slovenija, the country’s public broadcaster, Infodrom is an award-winning, kids-oriented, weekly half-hour TV news programme and a key […]

English version. Als am 12. März endlich die Nachricht bekannt wurde, dass Slowenien Covid-19 offiziell zur Epidemie erklären würde, hatte das Infodrom-Produktionsteam gerade die letzte Episode seiner Sendung aufgenommen. Infodrom ist ein preisgekröntes, kinderorientiertes, wöchentlich halbstündiges TV-Nachrichtenprogramm, das von RTV Slovenija, dem öffentlich-rechtlichen Sender des Landes, produziert wird und eine Schlüsselrolle bei der Medienkompetenzbildung in […]

Press freedom in Hungary is once again under attack. The editor-in-chief of Index.hu, the largest and most influential of the country’s remaining independent media, was fired earlier this week, just a month after the outlet declared that its independence was under threat from external pressure. Today, the outlet’s entire editorial board and some 80 other […]