European Federation of Journalists

Monitoring media pluralism in Europe: between old risks and new threats

Albert Borschette Congress Center Rue Froissart 36, Etterbeek

The year 2017 was marred by the assassination, in Malta, of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, an event which represented one of the the darkest hour for media freedom and media pluralism in the European Union in recent years. In 2018 otherjournalists in the frontline, Jan Kuciak and Viktoria Marinova were murdered in Slovakia and Bulgaria. These crimes have profoundly shaken Europe and have had an impact on its image as a bastion of human rights and democratic values. Several years of monitoring the state of play of media pluralism and freedom in Europe by the Media Pluralism Monitor (MPM)…