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Two arrested journalists released in Turkey after 92 days

The European and International Federations of Journalists (EFJ-IFJ) warmly welcomed today Turkey’s Constitutional Court ruling on February 25 stating that the rights of Cumhuriyet newspaper...

Leading writers call on Turkish PM to release colleague

Case against Mehmet Baransu: “Vengeance, not justice” Leading authorities and practitioners of investigative journalism have appealed to the Turkish prime minister to drop charges against...

Aggravated life sentences sought for journalists in Turkey unacceptable, OSCE Representative says

VIENNA, 28 January 2016 – The severe charges against journalists Can Dündar and Erdem Gül could further increase the already critical pressure that opposing...

2015 Media Integrity Reports on Seven Enlargement Countries Released

A new series of media integrity reports on the seven EU hopefuls has been released as part of the SEE Media Observatory project. Now in its...

SEENPM Voices Concerns Over Press Freedom in Turkey: Open Letter to Turkish President and PM

16 December 2015 Dear President Erdoğan and Prime Minister Davutoğlu,   The undersigned civil society organizations, members of the South East European Network for Professionalization of Media...

The first prison visit: P24 stands with jailed journalists in Turkey

Attorney-at-law Veysel Ok of P24's Legal Unit visited five journalists imprisoned over their news reporting. Cumhuriyet daily's Editor-in-Chief Can Dündar, Ankara Bureau Chief Erdem Gül,...

Monitoring EU Guidelines

South East European Media Observatory, a project of a group of SEENPM member organizations, monitored the independence and transparency of media regulators and public...

Media in SEE marred by ownership concentration, lack of solidarity and fear of job loss

From: "Press office - Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso" <press@balcanicaucaso.org> Date: 22 October 2014, 18:46:53 GMT+3 Monopolies, non-transparent means of finance, weak unions, no possibility of coming...

Addressing online hate speech in South East European media

Sarajevo - Over 90 participants took part last week, 16 and 17 October, in the regional conference “Addressing online hate speech in South East...

Putting Freedom of Expression at the Heart of the Accession Process

''The European Commission will accept no deviation on the part of candidate countries from European Union standards on freedom of expression and the media,''...

Speak Up Conference on Media Freedom

The European Commission in its 2010-2011 enlargement strategy set out its concerns about restrictions to freedom of expression and media in the Western Balkans...
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Grants for investigative stories covering EU member countries and EU aspiring countries 

The Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) is inviting journalists who are interested in producing in-depth investigations to apply for grants that will...

Summer School for Journalists and Media Practitioners: The Future of the Information Sphere and Journalism Intelligence

Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom from Florence is organising a summer school for journalists and media practitioners, focusing on the...

WARM Festival 2025: Call for projects

WARM Festival 2025, dedicated to war reporting, art, and memory, will take place in Sarajevo from July 7 to 12, 2025. The...

SEENPM Condemns Journalist Arrests in Turkey

SEENPM strongly condemns the jailing of several journalists in Turkey over their coverage of the protests in Istanbul and other Turkish cities...