Journalism

Conditions for the mass media in Romania deteriorated sharply in 2014, mainly due to the economic downturn in the country and inadequate levels of press freedom, a new report says.

The European Parliament has awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to several journalists and advocates of freedom of press since it was launched in 1988. We talked to some of those laureates about their experiences, current challenges and the importance of the press ahead of World Press Freedom Day on Sunday, May 3.

Every year, 3 May is a date which celebrates the fundamental principles of press freedom; to evaluate press freedom around the world, to defend the media from attacks on their independence and to pay tribute to journalists who have lost their lives in the exercise of their profe

World Press Freedom Day marked

BELGRADE -- The Independent Journalist Association of Serbia (NUNS) called on media professionals to engage in "Five Minutes of Thunderous Silence" on Sunday.ession.

According to NUNS, they would thus "oppose the further humiliation of their profession."

President Klaus Iohannis sent, on Sunday, on the World Press Freedom Day, a message in which he shows that the role of the mass media is essential in defending public interest.

Photo credit: (c) Alex MICSIK / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

Prime Minister Victor Ponta says, in a Facebook post, that the Constitution's Article 30 on freedom of speech is, in his opinion, "perhaps the most powerful reading" on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day.

Photo credit: (c) Liviu SOVA / AGERPRES ARCHIVE

Journalists marched with the slogan ?stand up for journalism? on World Press Freedom Day, celebrated worldwide on May 3. 

A group of journalists and representatives of press unions marched from Istanbul?s Tünel to the Galatasaray high school on May 3, while chanting slogans to stand up journalism in the country. 

BELGRADE - Serbian Ombudsman Sasa Jankovic said in a statement on the occasion of the World Press Freedom Day that Serbia cannot take pride in the media freedom, or the financial situation of journalists in the country.

BELGRADE - Ministry of Culture and Information expressed Saturday its unconditional support for the freedom of media, adding it strongly opposes all forms of threats, pressures and endangering the safety of journalists.

Turkey remained ?not free? in terms of its press freedom, increasing its overall negative-trending score from 62 to 65 compared to the previous year, according to Freedom House?s ?2015 Freedom of the Press? report.