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Press Freedom in South East Europe Declines

The 2017 World Press Freedom Index paints a bleak picture of press freedom in South East Europe, with a number of countries recording declining...

A Slowly Shifting Field: Understanding Donor Priorities in Media Development

  Funding to support independent media remains a small, but vital part of international assistance. But while the share of aid directed at this issue...

Council of Europe report: Media coverage of the “refugee crisis”: A cross-European perspective

Media have played an important role in framing the public debate on the “refugee crisis” that peaked in autumn of 2015. This report examines...

The Power of Airwaves: The Role of Spectrum Management in Media Development

Electromagnetic spectrum - the frequencies on which all voice and data signals are transmitted - has been viewed for decades as a scarce resource and leased to the highest...

Essential Principles for Contemporary Media and Communications Policymaking

Report by Robert G Picard and Victor Pickard, published by Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.  This report proposes principles to guide contemporary media and...

UNESCO Series on Internet Freedom

UNESCO has started in 2009 to commission a flagship series of publications of Internet Freedom, aiming to explore the changing legal and policy issues of...

“Press Released” – new platform on global media

The European Journalism Centre announced today the launch of “Press Released”, a new platform and commentary series established in partnership with non-profit editorial service...

Media Development in the Digital Age: Five Ways to Engage in Internet Governance

"Internet governance decisions are having a more pronounced and immediate impact on the media environment. The question then for the media development community is...

Defamation and Insult Laws in the OSCE Region: A Comparative Study

This study examines the existence of criminal defamation and insult laws in the territory of the 57 participating States of the Organization for Security...

Measuring media realities. Media Clientelism Index 2016

Clientelism, politicization and corruption hold media captured and prevent them from carrying out their watchdog role. Media Clientelism Index assesses the situation in 6...

Public Opinion Research: Benchmarking Demand – Turkey’s Contested Internet

The role of the Internet as a fundamental tool for communication and empowerment is one that should not be inhibited as the limitless nature of the...

Report: Turkey’s Internet Policy after the Coup Attempt – The Emergence of a Distributed Network of Online Suppression and Surveillance

Bilge Yesil, Efe Kerem Sozeri In the early 1990s, the internet in Turkey was in the purview of academic and research institutions and had not...
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Montenegro’s Digital Services Law: Getting Implementation Right for Human Rights

Montenegro has adopted legislation preparing the ground for implementation of the EU’s Digital Services Act. Looking forward, the next period should focus...

SEENPM: Alpac Capital takeover of Adria News Network must be closely scrutinised 

We, the SEENPM member organisations in Serbia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia, express deep concern over last week’s Alpac Capital’s...

Regional Editors’ Forum Held in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Cross-border reporting is no longer just one of the options in journalism; it is increasingly becoming essential for financial sustainability and investigative...

Who Governs What We See Online?

A new study maps platform power, regulation, and how news media depend on platforms for reach and visibility in Southeast Europe