Journalism

The guerrilla organization Group of Popular Fighters has claimed responsibility for a shooting attack on the Israeli Embassy in Athens in December, the police said on Wednesday after collecting a memory stick with the group?s proclamation from a trash bin in Nea Smyrni.

Al-Jazeera journalist Peter Greste said Feb. 3 he was due to leave Greek Cyprus shortly and fly home to Australia following his release from an Egyptian jail.
      
In his first posts on his official Twitter account after more than 400 days in jail, Greste thanked his supporters and said he would soon be heading to see his family in his native Australia.
      

The jury, which comprised prominent journalists and editors, unanimously awarded BIRN the prize for the most exciting and investigative work, which provoked the strongest reactions, launched a public debate and asked questions of the authorities.

Britain's best-selling newspaper The Sun has quietly dropped photos of topless women from page 3, ending a controversial tradition that has lasted decades in a move hailed by feminist campaigners.
      

The European Parliament approved a resolution on freedom of expression in Turkey on Jan. 15, with most of the 593 members of the parliament voting for the measure's adoption.

VIENNA - Dunja Mijatovic, OSCE representative on freedom of the media, has said that she has regular contacts with the authorities in Serbia with regards to the topic of freedom of the media, though she does not always see eye to eye with them

Serbia ranks 54th in "press freedom" survey

LONDON -- Serbia is ranked 54th out of 180 countries in terms of press freedom in 2014, according to a Reporters without Borders survey.

Last year, the country was ranked 63rd.

Reporters without Borders said that Finland took the first place for the fourth year in a row, followed by the Netherlands and Norway.

Reporters Without Borders (RWB) released its annual report on abuses of journalists in 2014 on Tuesday.

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So at the end of the day journalism has not died in Turkey.

If it had died as some of our colleagues have been saying lately out of pessimism, there wouldn’t be any need felt to issue the publication ban to the news about the commission’s corruption investigation for the four former ministers.

After a six-hour debate on media freedom on Thursday in Serbian parliament, the culture and information committee urged the authorities to "vigorously react" to censorship and potential pressures on journalists to ensure pluralism of opinions survived in Serbia.