The AEJ has joined 12 other media freedom groups to mark the sixth anniversary of the assassination of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in Malta on […]
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Lord Patten of Barnes on China and the World Order
Lord Patten, the Chancellor of Oxford University and the last British governor of Hong Kong, says it’s important that the rest of the world engages […]
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Europe wide campaign for the safety of journalists launched
The Council of Europe launches a continent-wide Campaign for the Safety of Journalists at an international conference on 5 and 6 October .
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Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin – dead and buried?
Russian warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin is reported dead and buried.His Wagner mercenary group said he was buried on August 29. Russian authorities said genetic testing matched […]
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Covid casualties
The UK Parliament has overwhelmingly voted to back the Privileges Committee report which found former prime minister Boris Johnson deliberately and repeatedly misled Parliament about […]
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13 September: What future for the Wagner group?
Dr. Andreas Krieg, a political and country risk analyst and senior lecturer at King’s College London, will examine the Wagner group’s deep penetration of countries […]
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AEJ joins call for Russia to stop violence against journalists
The AEJ has joined eight other media freedom groups to condemn an attack on a journalist and lawyer in Chechnya. And it called on Russian […]
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Ann Leslie 1941-2023
The AEJ UK notes – with many others – the sad death of multi award winning British journalist Ann Leslie. Winner of 9 British press […]
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Re-thinking decolonisation
Decolonisation – challenging and undoing deep-rooted power structures and promoting marginalised voices to forge a more equitable and just global order – was a pivotal […]
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Fernando Mezzetti – In memoriam 1942-2023
Italian journalist Fernando Mezzetti, one of the most prominent international reporters of his generation, is remembered in this personal tribute by his long-time friend Anthony […]
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Understanding Ukraine’s “350-year war” for independence
William Horsley reports on the AEJ’s meeting on 5 June 2023 with researcher and political scientist Jaroslava Barbieri Jaroslava Barbieri is an Italo-Ukrainian political scientist […]
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David Haworth 1941-2023
It is with great sadness that the AEJ marks the death in Brussels of David Haworth, AEJ veteran and a founder of the AEJ’s British […]
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Democracy undermined by media manipulation – AEJ marks World Press Freedom Day
Media freedom, “the cornerstone of democracy”, is being undermined and manipulated “by a number of different actors who use a variety of increasingly sophisticated methods” […]
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UK slips down ranking in World Press Freedom Index
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) ranks the UK as number 26 in its latest World Press Freedom Index, released on World Press Freedom Day 2023. That’s […]
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Can the Commonwealth survive without free speech?
Marking World Press Freedom Day on May 3, William Horsley questions what the Commonwealth is doing to protect free speech.Horsley is chair of the AEJ […]
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