Press releases
March 14, 2024
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The SafeJournalists Network strongly condemns the life-threatening email sent to Isa Myzyraj, a journalist at Ora News and an activist of human rights in Albania. This alarming incident occurred on March 12, 2024, when Mr....
March 13, 2024
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Over the past few days, several journalists in Serbia have been continuously insulted, threatened live, by phone or through messages on social networks, and some have been the target of intimidation by the police. The...
March 6, 2024
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Franjo Šarčević, the editor of the portal Prometej, received a series of threats, insults and became the target of hate speech on social networks, as well as media harassment, after he published a column in which he commented...
March 5, 2024
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Sarajevo March 5, 2024. The Board of Directors of the BH Journalists Association and the Helpline for Journalists call on the competent police and prosecutorial institutions in Sarajevo Canton to urgently conduct an...
February 27, 2024
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N1 newsroom received death threats last night in comments on the website. In addition to many insults, targeting as traitors and threats that “they know where they (journalists) live and which car they drive” the comment said...
Events
March 14, 2024
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Zenica, 14.3.2024. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, we should demand from the state the construction of a long-term, comprehensive and institutional response to the frequent cyber violence and the increase in online threats to the...
February 27, 2024
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The European Parliament today adopted with an overwhelming majority (546 in favour, 47 against, 31 abstentions) the Anti-SLAPP Directive, intended to protect journalists and media outlets from abusive litigations. The European...
February 23, 2024
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A UK High Court hearing to determine whether Julian Assange will be allowed a final appeal against his extradition to the United States concluded with no immediate decision, leaving the fate of the WikiLeaks publisher hanging...
February 16, 2024
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“The ongoing prosecution of Julian Assange jeopardises media freedom everywhere in the world”, says the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), in a joint statement ahead...
February 6, 2024
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The BH Journalists Association (BHJA) organized a gathering in Sarajevo in front of the Eternal Fire to light candles and honor the murdered colleagues in the Gaza Strip. Media professionals from Banja Luka, Zenica and Tuzla ...
From Media
March 9, 2024
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Press release from a section of the membership of the P.E.N. Center of Bosnia and Herzegovina We, the undersigned members of the PEN Center of Bosnia and Herzegovina, unconditionally condemn the attacks on Franja Šarčević,...
March 8, 2024
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On the International Women’s Day, the SafeJournalists Network points out that the position of women journalists in the Western Balkans remains difficult. Although women journalists usually work under similar conditions as...
February 23, 2024
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Borka Rudić, general secretary of the BH Journalists Association (BHJA), speaks about the pressure on all those who think freely, who, since the passing of the “law on foreign agents”, which criminalizes...
August 10, 2023
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EFJ Director Renate Schroeder wrote about the European Media Freedom Act in an article originally published in Social Europe. Read the article in its entirety here: Amid a sea of online misinformation, in a ‘polycrisis’ world...
August 1, 2023
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Two years have passed since the public inquiry report into the circumstances into the death of slain journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, and the government has not yet presented alternative proposals to the ones it shot down...
Jobs
July 27, 2023
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The INFOHOUSE Foundation is looking for six journalists within the project “Improved evidence-based journalism for independent media”. Applications until 31.08.2023. Reference number: GIZ 2.2. /2023. 1. ABOUT THE...
March 30, 2023
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The Bavarian Journalists’ Association (BJV) is announcing the “Special Award Ukraine” Europe-wide as part of its competition for Press Freedom Day. The prize is valued at 1,000 euros. The call for entries is...
September 14, 2022
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Deadline: 1 October Since 1992, Humanitarian Law Center has worked on documenting war crimes and human rights violations committed in the former Yugoslavia, focusing on the victims and their stories. The organisation advocates...
August 23, 2022
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Are you passionate about finding ways to enhance media with technological innovation? Do you have an idea for a research paper on challenges and emerging trends in digital security? Are you working on developing innovative...
June 2, 2022
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The “FOUNDATION ALEXANDRA STEFANOPOULOU FOR THE PROMOTION OF GREEK SPIRIT” has the pleasure to announce the creation of the “LITERARY PRIZE ALEXANDRA STEFANOPOULOU”. The PRIZE will be awarded every second year and the PRIZE...