From the IPI series Media Freedom in Europe in the Shadow of COVID-19 La Voz de Galicia is a 130-year-old regional daily newspaper based in A Coruña, northwestern Spain. Born as a liberal newspaper, it is the highest-circulation newspaper in the Spanish region of Galicia (pop. 2.7 million). The digital edition launched on May 17, […]

Read in English In Spanien, inmitten der COVID-19-Pandemie, beschränken die nationalen und regionalen Regierungen den Zugang der Presse zu Krankenhäusern, Seniorenresidenzen und offiziellen Einrichtungen – einschließlich des Regionalparlaments in Madrid. Journalisten haben den Versuch der Nachrichten- und Bildkontrolle angeprangert, wobei viele befürchten, dass diese exzessiven Praktiken, die während der Monate des Lockdowns eingeführt wurden, bis […]

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 […]

As lockdowns lift and Europe emerges from the immediate Covid-19 health crisis in the coming months, all extensions or suspensions of deadlines for freedom of information (FOI) requests must be reversed, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today. FOIs, a process by which journalists can submit an official request to a state body or organization […]