Captured news media: the case of Turkey - HTML5 video

Held at the International Journalism Festival 2016 in Perugia, this roundtable considers the current state of the media in Turkey

Access to Information in Bulgaria 2015 - Reports

This annual report on access to information in Bulgaria examines the trends in requests and answers as well as legislative changes in 2015

Curbing Media, Crippling Debate: Soft Censorship in Bulgaria - Reports

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

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

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

Media Freedom on the Internet: An OSCE Guidebook - Manuals

The Guidebook deals with the legal issues concerning Internet freedom and blocking policies of OSCE memberstates

DIG Awards - Opportunities

The DIG Awards reward excellence in investigative journalism, encouraging the use of video in the reporting work. Next deadline: 31st March 2016.

ECPMF conference puts press freedom on the map - HTML5 video

They came from twenty three countries to the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom’s base in Leipzig, East Germany … top politicians such as Elmar Brok, the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs spokesman, leading lawyers such as Russia’s Galina Arapova, campaigners like Melody Patry from Index on Censorship, top managers like Hans-Ulrich Jörges, editor-in-chief for Special Affaires, Gruner + Jahr, Hamburg, and leading academics including Professor Dirk Voorhoof from Ghent University.

Reporters Without Borders - Stakeholders

Reporters Without Borders was founded in 1985 in France, where it is registered as a non-profit organisation. RWB mission includes the monitoring, denounce and prevention of attacks on freedom of information worldwide. The organization specialised spheres of activity also include a focus on Internet Censorship and the New Media, and the support to journalists working in dangerous areas.

Reporters Without Borders has an active presence in five continents through a network of over 150 correspondents, and enjoys a consultant status at the United Nations and UNESCO.

Internet Censorship Circumvention Tools: Escaping the Control of the Syrian Regime - Academic Sources

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

NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies - Call for submission - Opportunities

NECSUS European Journal of Media Studies invites contributions for the Autumn 2016 special section on the relation between the question of home and the media, both in light of the migration crisis and in a more broad historical and theoretical perspective