The Press Project is proud to be representing Greece as the media partner of the Safety Net for European Journalists.
Media freedom and freedom of expression are the core of a democratic society. Despite this, in Europe journalists are sometimes threatened, censured or intimidated and this affects the citizens' right to information.
Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso (OBC), together with SEEMO, Ossigeno Informazione, Professor Eugenia Siapera (Dublin City University) and a broad network of media partners in 11 European countries, will devote a year to studying the freedom of the press in Italy, South East Europe and Turkey.
News and investigations will be published, monitoring will be carried out, violations documented and scientific research will be effected in the 11 countries on the needs of journalists under threat. A manual will be issued showing concrete ways to support the journalists at risk, a platform of crowdsourcing in 9 languages will be created and function as a loudspeaker on the social media.
It will report the stories of those who are at risk every day while simply trying to do their work well. The 11 countries in which the support network will be active are:
Bulgaria
Croatia
Cyprus
FYROM
Greece
Italy
Montenegro
Romania
Serbia
Slovenia
Turkey
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