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 […]

After the surprise acquittal of the alleged mastermind in the 2018 murder of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová, what are the next steps in the fight for justice? The International Press Institute (IPI) launches today its new podcast series on global press freedom developments, “The Press Freedom Files”. The series’s first […]

Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partners today call for the fight for justice for Slovak investigative journalist, Ján Kuciak and his fiancée Martina Kušnírová to continue, after the Specialized Criminal Court in Pezinok returned a not-guilty verdict for alleged mastermind of their murder, Marian Kočner. The court also acquitted Alena Zsuzsová, a Kočner confidante suspected […]