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Time to change our view of the world – Baroness Valerie Amos
Report on the AEJ UK journalists meeting at Europe House on 19 March 2025 – from Peter Norman Baroness Valerie Amos, formerly a minister in […]
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Fakenews wars – Musk v. Bannon
Two of the key men in the Donald Trump narrative – and the Make America Great Again movement – are at odds. The New York […]
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Europe’s human rights spokesman: Trump US aid cuts threaten journalism
The Council of Europe Commissioner for Human Rights, Michael O’Flaherty, has called on EU member states to counter severe damage from US President Donald Trump’s […]
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Press freedom in Europe:confronting political pressure, disinformation and erosion of media independence
The AEJ joined 14 other partner organisations of the Council of Europe’s Platform for the Safety of Journalists on 5 March 2025 to urge the […]
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The Trump way comes to the Washington press
Honorary AEJ member Llewellyn King has been reporting for decades from Washington and is founder and executive producer/host of the White House Chronicle news and […]
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Rupert Murdoch turns against Trump
Rupert Murdoch’s American newspapers turned on U.S. President Donald Trump after he falsely accused Ukraine of starting the war with Russia, The i Paper reports. […]
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Trump and the job of journalism – a view from America
As Donald Trump nears the end of his second week as president, the AEJ’s Llewellyn King provides some timely journalistic insights from Washington. King, a […]
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AEJ raises fresh alarm at threats to media freedom in central Europe
As Donald Trump and his friends take control in the United States, the AEJ has raised the alarm about gathering threats to media freedom in […]
Read moreNews fakers almost face justice
Two key and interlinked characters in the ongoing fake news sagas of recent years faced forms of justice in 2020 – almost. In the USA, […]
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Big lies and big tech
Ex U.S. President Donald Trump has sued three of the globe’s biggest tech companies. He claimed in his suit filed on July 7 2021 that […]
Read moreCould Canada’s largest newspaper save itself by fact checking Donald Trump?
The Toronto Star was the inspiration for Clark Kent’s Daily Planet – and like nearly every mainstream newspaper and broadcaster in the western world it […]
Read moreFake News undermines democracy …and confuses expert researchers
Two reports in 2018 tried to examine the difficult phenomenon of fake news. The AEJ issued a road map on how to respond after a […]
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