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Analysis: Tisza’s victory offers historic opportunity for media freedom reform in Hungary

IPI op-ed: While Tisza’s landslide election victory offers opportunity to rejuvenate press freedom, unwinding Fidesz’s media capture model will be complex, but essential for achieving wider democratic reform
Europe: Hungary

Feature: The information frontline — Press freedom and the security crisis in the Sahel

Military regimes in Mali, Niger, and Burkina Faso are widening crackdown on independent journalism, risking an information gap with regional and global consequences
Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger

Kenya: IPI welcomes court ruling striking down criminal false news provisions

Lawmakers should go further and amend other provisions of Kenya’s cybercrime law on cyberharassment and surveillance that pose a risk to public-interest journalism
Africa: Kenya

Interview: How Georgian public broadcaster was distorted into a government mouthpiece

Former employee discusses the broadcaster's capture in an interview with IPI
Europe: Georgia

Analysis: Russia ramps up pressure on media and journalists in exile

Newly adopted laws add to repression years after enactment of wartime censorship
Europe: Russia

European Journalism Now: Prague Conference Wrap-up

IPI-led roundtable sessions on day two focused on media capture and the European Media Freedom Act (EMFA)
Europe: Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia