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IPI jointly calls on Member States to back EU action in response to killing of journalists in Gaza

IPI signs joint letter urging governments of Germany, Italy and Czech Republic to support suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement
Czech Republic, Germany, Israel, Italy, Palestinian Territories

Czech Republic: IPI National Committee launches new journalist safety platform

Initiative will provide journalists and media professionals platform to report attacks and receive legal and psychological support
Czech Republic

Czech Republic: Ten demands for maintaining media freedom ahead of election

Media freedom groups underscore importance of cross party support for independent journalism and media freedom as part of a democratic society
Europe: Czech Republic

Czech Republic: IPI welcomes progress on securing public media funding

Enhanced funding comes as Czech Television and Czech Radio face looming threats
Europe: Czech Republic

Czechia: Public media face renewed threat as elections appear on horizon

Former, and potentially future, PM Andrej Babiš plans Slovak-style merging of TV and radio, raising press freedom concerns
Europe: Czech Republic

Disinformation made in Czechoslovakia

Slovakia and the Czech Republic struggle with challenging climates for disinformation and propaganda
Europe: Czech Republic, Slovakia

2024 rule of law report: media freedom organizations urge the EU to enforce stronger safeguards

The European Union and its members must step up to protect journalists amid escalating threats
Europe: Albania, Czech Republic, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kosovo, Malta, Montenegro, Netherlands, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia

Appeal: protect exiled Russian journalists in the Czech Republic

Safety of Journalists Platform partners urge action to ensure safety of Russian journalists in exile
Czech Republic, Russia

EU: Threats to media freedom submitted to Commission’s Rule of Law report

IPI and MFRR partner organisations in Europe provide updates to annual EU rule of law monitoring tool
Europe: Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands

IPI demands investigation of threats against Prague-based iStories journalists

Russian exiled journalists Alesya Marokhovskaya and Irina Dolinina surveilled and repeatedly threatened
Europe: Czech Republic, Russia

IJ4EU Interview: ‘These substances are not in total darkness anymore’

How a case of toxic pollution ignited a cross-border effort to expose contamination across Europe
Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Spain, United Kingdom

IPI Central Europe Network: Leading editors call for strong EMFA

Signatories urge EU bodies not to water down draft European Media Freedom Act
Europe: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia

#IPIWoCo Recap: Cutting loose from media capture

Panel discussion examined strategies for safeguarding independent journalism from media capture
Asia and Pacific: India
Europe: Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia

Czech Republic: On World Press Freedom Day, renewed energy needed in media reform agenda

IPI and Czech National Committee call on Fiala government to prioritize safeguarding media freedom
Europe: Czech Republic

Czech Republic: Efforts to fight disinformation grind to a halt

After promising start, government of Petr Fiala fails to make progress on media agenda
Europe: Czech Republic

Czech Republic: What Andrej Babiš’s potential sale of Mafra could mean for the media landscape

Reports of negotiations stir speculation about potential buyers for influential publishing group
Europe: Czech Republic

MFRR partners document 813 media freedom violations in Europe in 2022

War in Ukraine casts dark cloud over press freedom on the continent
Europe: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, Ukraine

Czech Republic: The would-be president and the press (that he owns)

Former PM Babiš, who owns influential Mafra publishing house, faces second round run-off in closely watched presidential election
Europe: Czech Republic