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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 Media Freedom Workshop on 10 November during 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. 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.
Resolution adopted by the AEJ General Assembly, 9
November 2007 In connection with the issue of media freedom and the obligation of all members of the Council of Europe to abide by the European Convention on Human Rights, in particular article 10, the AEJ's General Assembly adopted the following resolution: RESOLUTION PASSED AT THE ANNUAL GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE AEJ IN DUBLIN, IRELAND, ON 9 NOVEMBER 2007 The Association of
European Journalists deplores the action of Slovakia's Supreme
Court in rejecting the judgment of the European Court of Human
Rights in Strasbourg concerning the right of journalist Martin
Klein to publish a satirical article about a church
leader, Archbishop Jan Sokol. The position of Slovakia's judicial
authorities places the country in breach of its legal obligations as a member
of the Council of Europe to uphold freedom of expression. This has happened
at a time when Slovakia should be setting a correct example as it starts
its six-month term as chairman of the Committee
of Ministers, the Council of Europe's executive body, on
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Goodbye to Freedom? A survey of media freedom across Europe 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 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, originally published on the NUJ's Brussels website and elsewhere Press releases – workshop 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)* 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 All the above
documents that are accessible on this website are presented as Word
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