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Belgrade court sentences journalist’s killers 20 years after murder

A Belgrade court on Friday sentenced four former secret police officers to prison for the 1999 murder of journalist and newspaper publisher Slavko Curuvija...

Last Despatches – Stories about journalists killed in the Balkans since the 1990s

139 journalists and media workers were killed during and after the violent breakup of Yugoslavia. Only one person has been convicted of responsibility for any of these...

Media Under Pressure Across Balkans, State Department Warns

The State Department's annual human rights report says political and oligarchical pressures, as well as lawsuits, remain a constant threat to media freedom in...

New report shows rising harassment and threats against journalists in Council of Europe states

Press freedom in Europe is more fragile now than at any time since the end of the Cold War. That is the alarming conclusion...

End Impunity – for a UN Convention to protect journalists

Hundreds of journalists have been killed. Nine in 10 cases remain unpunished. Impunity reigns. It's time for change. ACT NOW! #NoImpunity #YesImpunityConvention Despite many protocols, guidelines...

Slovakia: Press freedom predator’s shadow hangs over Kuciak murder

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Slovak authorities to step up their investigation into detained businessman Marián Kočner’s repeated harassment of journalists and...

Global Impunity Index by CPJ released

A lack of justice in the murders of journalists creates an entrenched climate of censorship, the Committee to Protect Journalists found in its Global Impunity...

Malta: one year after Daphne Caruana Galizia’s killing, impunity remains

On 16 October 2017, Maltese investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered by a car bomb in the town of Bidnija, near her family home. One...

Journalist Victoria Marinova brutally murdered in Bulgaria

The European and International Federations of Journalists (EFJ-IFJ) are deeply shocked by the brutal murder of Victoria Marinova, a 30-year-old Bulgarian journalist working for regional...

Montenegro: “There is no point in police protection for journalists”

After Malta and Slovakia, also in Montenegro the media finds itself suppressed with utmost brutality: last Sunday a car bomb exploded outside the home of prominent Montenegrin journalist...
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Local Partnerships for a Stronger Society: Promoting Media Literacy and Gender Equality in Rožaje

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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...