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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 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. 2007 Full Survey (535
KB) Goodbye
to Freedom? November 2007 February 2008 Update (166 KB) Goodbye to Media Freedom? February 2008 |
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Full Survey (535
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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) _______________________________________ Further
presentations were made to the media freedom workshops at the Maastricht
Congress in November 2009, the Ordu Congress in October 2010 and the
Bucharest Congress in November 2011. 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
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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
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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 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 |
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2008 ·
Overview –
William Horsley 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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2009 Ukraine – Report on Freedom of Speech in 2009 by Arthur Rudzitsky, Diana Dutsyk and Mykhailyna Skoryk |
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2010 Armenia
– October 2010
report with reference to the Indicators
for Media in a Democracy (see below) Belarus –
Evaluation
of the situation in Belarus Bulgaria – Report
(NB this is a PowerPoint file) Ukraine
– Report,
17 January 2011 |
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2010 Ukraine – Overview of current
obstacles to media freedom and independence, by Arthur Rudzitsky, 6 April
2010 Information without
borders – Address
by Birgitta Jonsdottir, Icelandic MP and author of the Icelandic Modern
Media Initiative |
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