Im Vorfeld der österreichischen Wahlen zum Bundespräsidenten am 4. Dezember sehen sich die Anhänger eines Kandidaten Anschuldigungen ausgesetzt, Online-Übergriffe auf Journalisten zu verüben. Die Wahl ist ohnehin alles andere als Routine: Die Kandidaten der Volksparteien schafften es nicht in die Stichwahl und schieden im ersten Wahlgang im April aus. Übrig blieben ein nominell Unabhängiger und […]

Lesen Sie diesen Artikel auf Deutsch As Austria heads into the final days before a Dec. 4 presidential election, one contender’s backers increasingly face accusations of encouraging the online abuse of journalists. The allegation comes amid an election that has hardly been routine: candidates from Austria’s two traditionally strongest parties failed to make it past […]

“To our followers: The Népszabadság newsroom learned at the same time as the public that the paper was suspended with immediate effect. Our first thought is that it is a coup. We will get back to you soon.” With that short status update on the Facebook page of its web edition (nol.hu), Hungary’s biggest opposition […]

Hungarian journalist Attila Varga was waiting on a sidewalk one day when a car suddenly pulled up beside him. It did not contain a friend. “A person leaned out and shouted, ‘How dare you ban me, you motherfucker!’,” Varga recounted in a recent interview with the International Press Institute (IPI). Varga is one of three journalists […]