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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AEJ joins call for Turkey to stop stifling critical reporting ahead of elections
The AEJ has joined 18 other media freedom and human rights organisations calling on Turkey’s broadcast regulator (RTÜK) immediately to stop fining broadcasters for their […]
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AEJ joins call to release Gershkovich
The AEJ has joined partner media freedom groups to urge Russian authorities to release American journalist Evan Gershkovich immediately and to drop all charges against […]
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Russian warlord investigation forces UK to tighten sanctions
The UK government has tightened its sanctions rules against Russia in the wake of revelations by openDemocracy that the UK Treasury gave sanctioned Russian warlord […]
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Another misuse of Pegasus spyware
A joint investigation published by The New York Times and Aristegui Noticias and reported by Article 19 and PEN International shows that Mexico’s armed forces […]
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AEJ UK donates to Ukrainian journalists
The AEJ UK has donated more than 1500 Euros to Ukrainian journalists in response to an appeal for members’ contributions agreed at the annual members’ […]
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AEJ UK journalist Amberin Zaman recognized on International Women’s Day
The Coalition for Women in Journalism has recognized journalist and AEJ UK member Amberin Zaman on International Women’s Day, a few months after she was […]
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War in Europe, war on journalism
This year’s annual Council of Europe report on the safety of journalists documents a record high number of attacks on journalists and a continued degradation […]
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Ukraine – one year on
Leading European media freedom organisations including the Association of European Journalists marked the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine with a joint statement, reminding […]
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Declining trust in news media – an American perspective
An updated study in the USA shows a worrying decline in public trust in the mainstream news media. The study by the Gallup polling company […]
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Media freedom and disinformation in Ukraine – March 1
The president of Ukraine’s National Union of Journalists Sergiy Tomilenko joined an online panel on March 1 about how the Ukrainian crisis is reported and […]
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UK national security bill threat to whistleblowers
The AEJ UK joined more than 30 other journalistic and media freedom organisations in signing a letter in The Times warning that the National Security […]
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Russian journalism in exile
What’s it like for journalists who have fled Russia since Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022? And the many independent […]
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Culture Secretary scraps plans to privatise Channel 4
Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan has reversed plans by Boris Johnson’s government to privatise Channel 4. Her department confirmed a letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, […]
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