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

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

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

Media situation in Macedonia does not promise fair elections - HTML5 video

Zaneta Trajkoska, Director of the School of Journalism and Public Relations in Skopje, examines how the media landscape in Macedonia hinders free and fair elections

Moldova: Access to Information and Media Independence - Reports

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  

ECtHR: Right to information according to Art.10 ECHR- Press or anybody - Legal Resources

The ECtHR rejected on 6 January 2015 a German’s appeal and ruled that public authorities do not necessarily infringe Art. 10 of the Convention by refusing to give information (application no. 70287/11)

Encryption - A Matter of Human Rights - Reports

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 

MEDIADEM - Stakeholders

MEDIADEM was a European research project lasted from April 2010 to March 2013 focusing on the factors that promote or conversely prevent the development of policies supporting free and independent media.

The project combined a country-based study in Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Italy, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Turkey and the UK with a comparative analysis across media sectors and various types of media services. It investigated the configuration of media policies in the aforementioned countries and examined the opportunities and challenges generated by new media services for media freedom and independence. Moreover, external pressures on the design and implementation of state media policies, stemming from the European Union and the Council of Europe, are thoroughly discussed and analysed.

The coordinator of the project has been the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy.

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

Call for papers: De-constructing Crisis, European Humanities University (Vilnius) - Opportunities

The international student conference for undergraduate and graduate students will take place on May 6-8, 2016 in Vilnius. 

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