Reports and papers

Analyses on specific aspects related to press and media freedom, performed and published by research centres, non-governmental organizations and public bodies

RSF 2021 ROUND-UP, journalists detained, killed, held hostage and missing

This overview made by Reporters without Borders collects figures from January to December 2021

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Free to Think 2021. Report of the Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Monitoring Project

The seventh installment of an annual report by Scholars at Risk’s Academic Freedom Monitoring Project. The report analyzes 332 attacks on higher education communities in 65 countries and territories around the world between September 1, 2020 and August 31, 2021

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MFRR Monitoring Report: January - June 2021

The MFRR monitoring report summarises press and media freedom violations across EU Member States and candidate countries from January 2021 until June 2021. Throughout the reporting period, 272 alerts have been documented, ranging from verbal attacks to legal incidents. 438 individuals or media entities in 26 countries have been subject to one or more press freedom violations

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State of SLAPPs in Serbia

The latest report by ARTICLE 19, the American Bar Association (ABA) Center for Human Rights, and the Independent Journalists’ Association of Serbia (NUNS), analyses the provisions that are most commonly misused to file SLAPPs, strategic lawsuits against public participation, in Serbia. The report highlights patterns from multiple cases brought against journalists and activists by public officials and other powerful individuals in the past 10 years

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OSCE South East Europe Media Conference (SEEMC) “Journalism in times of crisis”

The two-day conference was held in a hybrid format in Tirana on 11-12 October 2021, and was co-organized by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media (RFoM) and the OSCE Presence in Albania, with the support of other OSCE field operations in the region

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State of SLAPPs in Spain

A country report published by Article 19, to describe how journalists and media outlets in Spain are facing multiple lawsuits for exposing corruption, reporting on matters of public concern or covering protests

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Legal harassment and abuse of the judicial system against the media

This special report by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media focuses on three of the most poignant and current topics related to legal harassment: “extremism” and terrorism related charges under public law; defamation claims under public law; and abusive private lawsuits against journalists and other media workers. The report aims to provide general guidance to the OSCE participating States regarding their related commitments

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Threats that Silence: Trends in the Safety of Journalists

A discussion paper by UNESCO about the World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development

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Changing Newsrooms 2021: hybrid working and improving diversity remain twin challenges for publishers

This report, published in November 2021, explains on how news organisations are responding to the challenges of attracting talent, increasing gender and ethnic diversity, and managing the transition to hybrid work

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The impact of strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) on the news media sector

A collection of the findings of News Media Europe interviews with press publishers, in-house lawyers, journalists and editors-in-chief about the impact of such lawsuits on the news
media sector

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