Materials

The Struggle for Turkey's Internet

27/08/2014

Turkey is a battleground state for Internet regulation, according to a Freedom House report released in advance of the Internet Governance Forum

Serbian Tabloid Targets BIRN after Airline Revelations

21/08/2014

The pro-government tabloid ‘Informer’ has published a series of allegations about the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network, following its investigation into a secret government contract with the UAE’s Etihad Airways

Why we’re boycotting the Internet Governance Forum

21/08/2014

Renowned Turkish internet rights advocates are boycotting the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) - a high-profile, United Nations-mandated annual conference on issues surrounding governance of the Internet held this year in Istanbul. They explain why in this open letter

Azerbaijan: Letter from imprisoned human rights activist Rasul Jafarov

20/08/2014

The renowned Azerbaijani dissident, held at a pre-trial detention centre in the capital Baku, has written an appeal to the international community

Slovenia: the media market challenges

19/08/2014 -  Marzia Bona

Slovenian media market is assessed as free by the main international watchdogs, although under a strong State influence and lacking strategic private ownership. An interview with Marko Milosavljević, Head of the Department of Journalism at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Lubiana

Crackdown on human rights in Azerbaijan

18/08/2014 -  Arzu Geybullayeva

Since the beginning of its presidency of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, the continent's leading human rights organisation, Azerbaijan has been placing more and more people behind bars. A jarring contrast no one seems to notice

International monitors: media coverage of Turkish presidential election "biased"

18/08/2014

According to international election observers, Turkish Prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's use of his official position, coupled with biased media coverage, gave him a distinct advantage in the country's first direct presidential election

SEEMO calls Montenegrin authorities to react to threats the journalist Jelena Jovanovic has been receiving since beginning August

13/08/2014

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), is urging the authorities in Montenegro to react immediately to threats the journalist Jelena Jovanovic has been receiving from an anonymous profile page on Facebook

The privatization of the Serbian media

13/08/2014 -  Dragan Janjić Belgrado

Serbia adopted new rules that require the State to leave media ownership. Media associations have welcomed the new legislation, introduced as a result of pressure from Brussels

Turkish media: rise in layoffs and attacks

11/08/2014

Nearly three times more journalists were fired in Turkey in the second quarter of 2014 as compared to the same period last year, the latest quarterly media monitoring report by Istanbul-based non-profit news portal Bianet showed