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The AEJ published
the first Survey of Media Freedom across Europe in November 2007.
Entitled Goodbye to Freedom? and edited by William Horsley, AEJ Media
Freedom Representative, it was debated at the the AEJ's 2007
Congress in Dublin. On 28 February
2008, a Survey Update entitled Goodbye
to Media Freedom? was published. On that day, William Horsley presented
its main findings to the Brussels-based press corps in the Résidence
Palace building opposite the European Commission. The Survey was
further expanded in November 2008 in the Collection
of AEJ Reports presented to the AEJ Congress in Linz. The reports are by
authors in 13 countries and focus on two topics: journalism at risk and
declining trust in the media. |
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Full Survey (535
KB) Goodbye
to Freedom? November 2007 February 2008 Update (166 KB) Goodbye to Media Freedom? February 2008 Survey and Update in
French (454
KB) Collected AEJ reports 2008 (242 KB) _______________________________________ The Maastricht
Congress in November 2009 is hosting a media freedom workshop at which
reports on Belarus, the Netherlands and Slovakia will be presented. Material
will be posted on this website as soon as it is available. |
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Media
Freedom Survey |
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2007 Full Survey (535
KB) Goodbye
to Freedom? November 2007 February 2008 Update (166 KB) Goodbye to Media Freedom? February 2008 Survey and Update in
French (454
KB) Presentation by the
French Section of the AEJ. The
translation was done by Le
Taurillon, the online magazine of the young people's section of the
European Movement in France. Its website
includes an interview
with William Horsley Country reports These
reports combine the texts that relate to each country from the Survey. Those
marked * contain extracts from the Update and those marked ** contain
extracts from the November 2008 Linz Reports Introduction and Summary (William Horsley)* ** Armenia (Liana Sayadyan)* ** Austria (Otmar Lahodynsky)* ** Belgium (Michel Theys) Croatia (Zdenko Duka)* ** Cyprus Part One (Kyriakos Pierides)* Part Two (Hasan Kahvecioglu)* Czech Republic (Tomas Vrba)* ** France (Régis Verley)* Germany (Horst Keller) Greece (Athanase Papandropoulos) Hungary (József Martin)* ** Ireland (Joe Carroll)* ** Italy (Carmelo Occhino and Elzbieta Cywiak)* Moldova (Aneta Grosu) ** Netherlands (Fred Sanders) ** Poland (Krzysztof Bobinski)* ** Romania (Ruxandra Ana) Russian Federation (Manana Aslamazyan and Gillian McCormack)* Serbia (Nebojsa Ristic) ** Slovakia (Peter
Kerlik and Tibor Macak)* ** Spain (Pedro
González)* ** Turkey (Dogan Tilic)* United Kingdom and EU
(Celia Hampton and William Horsley)* |
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2007 The original
Survey covers 20 countries in eastern and western Europe and highlights
evidence that media freedom in Europe is threatened by restrictive laws, hidden
political and commercial pressures, threats of jail, intimidation and in some
cases even murder. The Update contains new evidence from 15 countries that media freedom is in retreat because of widespread violence, censorship, meddling in broadcasting, commercial pressures and security laws. William Horsley charges European governments and EU institutions with complacency and puts forward three remedies for repairing the damage done to media freedom and independence. He argues that journalists should inform the public better about the dangers, and return to the “gold standard” of objective reporting and proper scrutiny of the actions of governments.
Transcript in full of William Horsley's remarks in Brussels, 28 February 2008 Euractiv report
on the 28 February press conference with links to many other useful sources NUJ report of the press conference, written by the NUJ's Phil Hunt (NUJ's Brussels website) Press releases – workshop The AEJ and authors are naturally happy
for short passages to be extracted for quotation, with attribution, but
please contact us if you wish to reproduce any significant portion. Email: william@aej-uk.org |
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2008 2008 LINZ CONGRESS First edition, 5 December 2008 (minor corrections, 15.12.08) pdf file – 242 Kb: if you do not
have Adobe Acrobat reader, it is
available free here ·
Overview –
William Horsley Journalism
at risk · Armenia – Liana Sayadyan · Austria – Otmar Lahodynsky · Croatia – Zdenko Duka (corrected 15.12.08) · France – Fabrice Pozzoli-Montenay · Moldova – Aneta Grosu · Poland – Krzysztof Bobinski · Serbia – Nebojsa Ristic · Slovakia – Tibor Macak Declining
public trust in the media · Croatia – Zdenko Duka · Czech Republic – Tomás Vrba · Hungary – József Martin · Ireland – Joe Carroll · Moldova – Aneta Grosu · Netherlands – Fred Sanders · Poland – Krzysztof Bobinski · Spain – Pedro González · Turkey – L Doğan Tılıç |
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2008 Other documents · Indicators for Media in a Democracy – Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly recommendation and resolution ·
Report
of PACE debate on 7 July 2008 – Wolfgang Wodarg MdB, rapporteur · Eurobarometer results on trust in the media (go to page 83 of this pdf file) ·
Text portion of the
Eurobarometer report ·
Autriche et
liberté de la presse, by Otmar Lahodynsky For a report of the Linz Congress
generally, see AEJ Congress and
General Assembly Report from Oberösterreichische
Nachrichten MISCELLANEOUS AEJ Sections Mark World Press
Freedom Day Message of support to Russian
journalist colleagues on the second anniversary of her murder (7 October 2008) AEJ Media Freedom Representative writes to the Chairman of the Russian Election Commission (12 December 2007) Resolution adopted by AEJ General
Assembly in Slovakia's Klein case
(9 November 2007) AEJ Media Freedom Representative appointed (23 June 2007) |
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