The "gendered price" of press freedom in the digital age: Documenting threats and challenges for female journalists in western media systems - Reports

In this article, Maniou and Papadopoulou ask whether female journalists enjoy the same level of press freedom as their male colleagues in the digital age. Using incidents recorded by Mapping Media Freedom and the reports of the Coalition For Women In Journalism (2020-2024), they document threats against women and non-binary journalists in western media systems.

Navigating Connections and Disconnections: The (Re)making of Russian Exiled Journalism in the Digital Age - Reports

In this article, Elena Rodina and Olga Dovbysh examine how Russian journalists exiled since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine navigate a dual identity: new migrants who must adapt to a host country, and media professionals who must stay close to a homeland they cannot return to.

Influence of Political Clientelism on Media Freedom under Vucic and the Progressive Party - Reports

Aleksandra Dragojlov's article examines how political clientelism has systematically shaped Serbia's media landscape under the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) since 2012. Despite formal legislative reforms in 2014 and 2023 that ostensibly aimed to reduce state involvement in media operations, the government has employed more subtle, indirect mechanisms of control.

Information as a Public Good: why media freedom is essential to democracy - Reports

This Legal and Policy Report, authored by Andrea Oleandri and produced within the STRIVE 2026 project supported by the Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties) and the European Union, argues that the quality of a democracy depends on the quality of its information space, and that the traditional framing of press freedom—centred on protecting individual expression from state censorship—is no longer sufficient to guarantee a genuinely free and pluralistic media environment

Hungary: Media freedom reform must be priority for incoming Tisza government - Article

OBCT joins MFRR partners in calling on the new Hungarian government to make media freedom reforms a priority 

International organisations urge Kosovo government to reverse media freedom decline - Article

Media freedom in Kosovo has experienced a period of decline since 2023 amidst a series of negative developments, which calls for immediate political action by the government, an international media freedom mission concluded today

Georgia: Restrictive new funding law would further cut off media and journalists - Article

The MFRR partners strongly condemn the proposals of the Georgian Dream (GD) ruling party to implement a series of legislative amendments that would impose additional restrictions and penalties on recipients of grants and foreign funding. 

EU’s Dangerous ‘Return Hubs’ Policy: A Threat to Journalists in Exile - Article

OBCT joins ECPMF and partner organisations call on the EU to reconsider the policy and place the protection of those fleeing persecution at the centre of its approach

Unequal Information: The Invisibility of Migrant, Refugee, and Racialized People in Italian Media - Reports

Carta di Roma and Lunaria teamed up to examine how Migrant, Refugee, and Racialized People are depicted by Italian Media

Media freedom under electoral siege: money, law, and silence between the lines - Article

When it comes to Macedonian media, Brussels notes “limited progress,” the OSCE warns of unequal access to the media space, and the civil sector speaks of a system of soft censorship and quiet dependence on state funding

By Metamorphosis Foundation