I can’t write that, it seems that more and more European journalists are saying this sentence to themselves when working for a media outlet. The refugee crisis, the Cologne attacks, the Panama papers or the new French surveillance law are some recent examples of sensitive topics that raised the question of self-censorship among journalists. The Friedrich Naumann Stiftung für die Freiheit in co-operation with the EFJ organised an event (02/05/2016) in Brussels to discuss how self-censorship affects journalists’ reporting in the European media industry.  The debate was moderated by EFJ Director Renate Schroeder, who at the outset drew the meeting’s attention to a comprehensive quantitative…

Russian Union of Journalists (RUJ), a member of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) together with the UN Information Center in Russia had a round table discussion at the Moscow Journalist House on 28 April to celebrate the World Press Freedom Day. RUJ president Vsevolod Bogdanov stressed in his opening speech the importance of press freedom and professional solidarity. Director of UN Press Center in Russia Vladimir Kuznetsov, representative of UN High Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia Rashid Alluash and representative of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO Nikolay Khaustov, talked about the history and the importance of World Press Freedom Day and Guillermo Cano Award.…