Global Forum for Media Development Deadline: 31 December 2019
Call for Applications The European Centre for Press and Media Freedom (ECPMF) is extending its Journalists-in-Residence programme to include up to three more media professionals from Turkey and Eurasia who will spend six months in residence in Leipzig.
Global Forum for Media Development Deadline: 12 November 2019
Training Course Under the Adelante initiative, five teams of two journalists will travel to Tapachula, Mexico and Quetzaltenango, Guatemala in from March 2-17, 2020 to generate coverage on issues that normally do not receive sufficient attention in Mexico and Guatemala.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentThe World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) have launched episode three of their media freedom podcast, The Back Story.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentThe World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has recently launched the second season of its podcast The Backstory: A Media Freedom Podcast. The second season will be entirely devoted to examining in-depth the many facets of the conversation around the safety of journalists. The Backstory attempts to raise some of the fundamental aspects of the safety conversation to its global listeners.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentAccording to UNESCO, 82 journalists and media workers have been killed globally in 2018 to date. On average, 90% of crimes against journalists go unpunished.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentDeadline: 30 September
The ECPMF’s Journalists-in-Residence programme was designed as a temporary shelter for journalists who face harassment and intimidation as a direct result of their work.
Mira MilosevicOn 27 March the EU Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs adopted the Report on media pluralism and media freedom in the EU. The report includes a motion for a European Parliament Resolution, which focuses on the relationship between media pluralism, freedom of expression and democracy in the digital age.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentThe call is directed at the European Commission suggesting that in addition to condemning the recent killings of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak and Daphne Caruana Galizia and calling upon authorities to address them on the national level the Commission should come up with better ways to protect journalists and journalism on the EU level.
Global Forum for Media Development“Defending Journalism”, a new global study by International Media Support (IMS), analyses the efforts to safeguard journalists in seven countries where environments of conflict and instability challenges the ability of journalists to produce good, in-depth journalism.