Reporters Without Borders (RSF) warns that media freedom is in its worst situation in 25 years with more than half the world’s countries now classified […]
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AEJ joins call for repeal of Turkey’s “disinformation law”
The AEJ International has joined 25 media freedom, freedom of expression, journalists’, and human rights groups to protest against Turkey’s increasing use of its “disinformation […]
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History lessons – and their limits and virtues – June 4
The AEJ UK will host eminent historian and commentator Michael Burleigh at a meeting on June 4. He will survey today’s heated rivalries between America, […]
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AEJ International debate on the Hungarian election
On April 13th, the AEJ International organised a Zoom-conference about the outcome of the Parliamentary elections in Hungary which also have a major European dimension. […]
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Media Freedom in 2025 – On the Tipping Point
Press freedom in Europe in 2025 was “under sustained pressure, driven by legal threats, attempts at media capture and transnational repression” notes the annual Media […]
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AEJ joins public call for BBC World Service to be “defended not defunded”
The AEJ and eight other organisations have called on UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper to end uncertainty over the government’s future funding of the BBC […]
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AEJ calls for the release of imprisoned Belarus journalist
In the week of 12 January, members of the Association of European Journalists in the UK and across Europe remember our former colleague, the Belarus […]
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AEJ marks anniversary of Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder with call for journalist protections
On the 8th anniversary of the appalling murder on 16 October 2017 of the Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, the Association of European Journalists […]
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Pentagon reporters walk out over new reporting rules
Many reporters accredited to the Pentagon have turned in their badges and walked out after refusing to sign new rules requiring prior approval of information […]
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Media freedom in Bulgaria undermined
The Association of Journalists has joined a coalition of international media freedom organisations to call on the government and public authorities of Bulgaria for urgent […]
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More Trump attacks on the media but Disney reinstates Jimmy Kimmel
U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested some American TV networks should have their licences “taken away” – the latest salvo in his long campaign to […]
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Northern Ireland police used unlawful powers to find journalist sources – report
A report into the Northern Ireland police has confirmed they have unlawfully used covert powers to try to uncover journalists’ sources – and found double […]
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