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

Curbing Media, Crippling Debate: Soft Censorship in Bulgaria

Based on a series of interviews with journalists and media experts from Bulgaria, this report provides an overview of soft censorship in Bulgaria and suggests actions to reverse this trend

read more Bulgaria Media ownership

Unfriending Censorship: Insights from four months of crowdsourced data on social media censorship

Onlinecensorship.org released a report about how social media companies moderate content. The authors describes information collected over a period of four months, between November 19, 2015 and March 10, 2016

read more Censorship Social media

State-media financial relations in the countries of South East Europe

A regional overview of monetary flows between the state and the media is South East Europe demonstrates the systematic misuse of public funds for establishing control over media

read more Media funding Media ownership Access to information Albania Bosnia Herzegovina Kosovo North Macedonia Montenegro Serbia Turkey

Moldova: Access to Information and Media Independence

Freedom House report on Moldova for the Universal Periodic Review focuses on the delays in the media legislation reform which curtail access to information, media independence and pluralism

read more Moldova Access to information Media ownership Media pluralism

Trust in Media 2016

A report by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), explores European citizens’ perception of the trustworthiness of several types of media

read more Trust in media

Filter Bubbles, Echo Chambers, and Online News Consumption

This article provides an empirical starting point for understanding how novel means of news consumption, in particular social media and search engines, affect ideological polarization of readers

read more Online news Online media

Encryption - A Matter of Human Rights

Restrictions on access to and use of encryption may constitute an interference with the enjoyment of human rights, holds Amnesty International’s first official stance on encryption

read more Surveillance Digital rights Digital safety

Burnout in journalists: a systematic literature review

A concise, comprehensive, and systematic review of the quantitative literature relating to the experience of burnout in journalists

read more mediafreedom Media ownership Media pluralism Freedom of expression

Media in southern and eastern oblasts of Ukraine

The Institute of Mass Information (IMI) and GFK Ukraine conducted an in-depth monitoring of media in six regions of Ukraine to assess how local media coverage serve the public interest

read more Ukraine Local media Media ownership Propaganda

Internet Censorship Circumvention Tools: Escaping the Control of the Syrian Regime

Taking Syria as a case study, this paper examines whether Internet censorship succeeded in preventing Internet users from reaching censored online content during 2010−2012

read more Digital rights Freedom of expression Censorship