Albania

Media Freedom in Albania: Shadow Report 2024

31/07/2024

This Shadow Report prepared by the Center Science and Innovation for Development (SCiDEV) and OBC Transeuropa provides a comprehensive and updated analysis of the Albanian media landscape and suggests a set of recommendations addressed to competent authorities and relevant stakeholders

From Silence to Strength: A Regional Response to SLAPPs in the Western Balkans

The newly released Balkan Civil Society Development Network Report examines the SLAPP phenomenon across the Western Balkans

Albania: freedom of the press crushed by the weight of politics

01/07/2024

Almost non-existent professional ethics, capture of the media by politics and financial unsustainability are just some of the main issues that make the Albanian media landscape particularly alarming. An interview

By Luisa Chiodi

Originally published on OBCT , also available in ITA

Media Capture in the Western Balkans: From captured states to captured media

The policy brief produced by Southeast European Leadership for Development and Integrity (SELDI) provides an analytical insight into the mechanisms behind media capture in the Western Balkans countries, as a phenomenon that negatively affects the media landscape in those countries through impairment of media freedom and pluralism. With the region being on track for EU accession, media capture presents a paramount problem that the brief addresses

Media in Albania, under the blows of power

03/04/2024

The recent angry attack by the Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama against a journalist has brought the constant pressure and intimidation that the power in Albania exerts on the media and media professionals back under the spotlight

By Erion Gjatolli

Originally published by OBCT, also available in ITA

Albania: SPAK must respect source protection in case of journalist Elton Qyno

10/01/2024

OBCT signs a joint letter together with media freedom partners in the SafeJournalists Network, the Media Freedom Rapid Response, and Reporters Without Borders addressed to the head of the Special Prosecution against Corruption and Organized Crime (SPAK) to raise concerns over the recent attempts to reveal the source of Albanian journalist Elton Qyno

Albania: urgent measures needed to safeguard journalists

19/07/2023

OBCT condemns recent attacks against journalists in Albania and calls on authorities to ensure press freedom in the country

Also available in ITA

ALBANIA – Indicators on the Level of Media Freedom and Journalists' Safety in Albania, 2022

“Indicators on the Level of Media Freedom and Journalists' Safety in Albania '' is a publication produced by Safejournalists network. The scope of this document is to analyse the ongoing situation in the country with respect to legal protection, editorial independence and safety of journalists

Albania: Press freedom organisations and journalist associations call for swift justice following deadly attack on Top Channel

27/03/2023

OBCT joins MFRR partners in urging Albania’s authorities to pursue the perpetrators who shot dead Pal Kola, Albanian TV station Top channel’s security guard

Albania: MFRR and Safe Journalist Network condemn attack on journalist Elvis Hila and his wife

27/01/2023

OBCT joins its Media Freedom Rapid Response partners and the Safe Journalists Network in condemning the physical attack on Albanian journalist Elvis Hila and his wife, calling for a swift prosecution of those involved in the attack