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AEJ Media Freedom Survey 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 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 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 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
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Documents 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 Brussels presentation – full transcript of William Horsley's remarks in Brussels Euractiv
presentation of the 28 February press conference with links to many other
useful sources of information on the topic 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 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)* Netherlands (Fred Sanders) Poland (Krzysztof Bobinski)* Romania (Ruxandra Ana) Russian Federation
(Manana Aslamazyan and Gillian McCormack)* Slovakia (Peter
Kerlik)* Spain (Pedro
González)* Turkey (Dogan Tilic)* United Kingdom and EU
(Celia Hampton and William Horsley)* The French
section of the AEJ has started the work of translating the Survey into
French. 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
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