The 15 partner organisations of the Council of Europe’s Safety of Journalists Platform launches its annual Media Freedom Report at a press conference in Brussels on 3 March 2026 from 0900 to 1100 GMT.
Partner organisations will present their findings and recommendations from the report which AEJ UK chair William Horsley and AEJ International media freedom representative Irina Nedeva helped to write.
The launch will be live streamed at https://www.youtube.com/embed/QBhmUzb9fi0
Panelists at the launch are:
Tamás Bodoky, co-founder and director, atlatszo.hu, Hungary
Irma Dimitradze, Communications Manager and Journalist, Batumelebi & Netgazeti, Georgia
Gunel Safarova, Acting Director and Editor-in-chief, Abzas Media, Azerbaijan
Dragana Žarković Obradović, Director of Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN), Serbia
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