Josh LaPorte

🔴Mzia Amaglobeli sentenced to 2 years imprisonment.

#FreeMzia
#RepressionInGeorgia
#Georgia
#JournalismIsNotACrime

Are you local media or a freelancer in Belgium, Hungary, Lithuania, Poland or Serbia? 🇧🇪🇵🇱🇱🇹🇷🇸🇭🇺

LIMENet is offering €16–20K grants plus mentoring to strengthen independent local journalism.

✍️Apply by 25 August:
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‘Everybody stood up’: Why a union leader’s arrest galvanized California Democrats on immigration In summary SEIU California leader David Huerta pressed to raise wages for custodians and other workers for decades before he was detained at a Los Angeles immigration protest.

www.newsfromthestates.com/article/ever...

Live from the Media Democracy Festival:
Oligarchs Inc: Who Owns the UK Media?

Our Exec Director, @milicapesic.bsky.social joins the discussion on media power, ownership, and democracy.

The panel kicks off with a key question: who owns the media—and why does it matter?

@mediareformuk.bsky.social

MDI’s @josh-mdig.bsky.social is a proud juror for the 2025 Global Youth & News Media Prize! 🏆
This year’s theme: how youth are helping save local news. 📰
📅 Deadline: 16 June
🌍 Open globally, all platforms
🔗 buff.ly/3SEXf4J
#YouthAndNews #LocalNews #JournalismAward

WPFD 2025: Defending democracy in Europe depends on defending media freedom – ipi.media

🇪🇺#EU: As part of our commemoration of #WPFD 2025, IPI joins partners in expressing solidarity with all journalists & media professionals who face threats, intimidation & attacks for their work. Read our full statement with the #MFRR👇

🔴 The Nicaraguan newspaper @laprensa.bsky.social has been announced as the laureate of the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World #PressFreedom Prize 2025, on the recommendation of an international jury of media professionals.

3 May is #WorldPressFreedomDay.

More: unes.co/zbu3ye

Shrinking Media Freedom in the South Caucasus and Central Asia: A Call for… | Media Diversity Institute 🗓️ Event: Shrinking Media Freedom in the South Caucasus and Central Asia – A Call for Urgent Action As part of UNESCO’s World Press Freedom Day celebrations, MDI and IRFS invite you to a crucial disc...

Join us today at 16h www.linkedin.com/posts/media-... @globalfreemedia.bsky.social @mediadiversity.bsky.social

🔴 #RSFIndex2025 | Norway is first and Eritrea last. Where does your country rank in the RSF World Press Freedom Index? l Find out here 👇 #RSFIndex

DOGE Is Just Getting Warmed Up DOGE has tapped into some of the most sensitive and valuable data in the world. Now it’s starting to put it to work.

This is the game. Unite and then manipulate the data for whatever mischief you want to do www.wired.com/story/doge-i...

🔚 Our #IJF25 panel wrapped with a powerful reminder:
Diversity isn’t a buzzword. It’s a human right. We need to fight for it—and be loud about it. Because silence only serves the status quo. @journalismfestival.com
@garyyounge @milicapesic.bsky.social @vrupar @aizaimm

We’re a go at #IFJ25 for Open Season on the Oppressed: Can Diversity Survive?

Big Tech’s business models like Meta’s prioritisation practices don’t just shape visibility, they deepen marginalisation. We’re here to unpack the complexities of tech, expression & diversity.

"What is diversity?” A question kicking off #IFJ25’s vital session on journalism & inclusion. Is it a dirty word now? A demographic? A practice?

Gary Younge says: “It’s about substantial and substantive difference, different opportunities.”

Are you in Perugia? Join us today at 11:30 CEST at Teatro del Pavone for "Open season on the oppressed: can diversity survive?" 🎤✨ #IJF25 #DiversityInMedia

Hear from our brilliant speakers: @aizaimm
@milicapesic.bsky.social @garyyounge @vrupar

#media #muskification #pressfreedom #ijf25

#IJF25 From funding crisis to opportunity: ideas & solutions in a post-USAID era

Eliza Anyangwe
The Fuller Project

Lars Boering
EJC

Peter Erdelyi
Center for Sustainable Media

Mira Milosevic
Global Forum for Media Dvpt

Sharon Moshavi
Int. Center for Journalists

Alinda Vermeer
Limelight

Benvenuti a Perugia! #ijf25 #pressfreedom #freedomofspeech

Georgia: Independent journalism and media pluralism on the brink IPI joins the undersigned press freedom, journalists, and freedom of expression organizations in expressing deep concern over the recently proposed legislation, increasing threats to journalists'…

🇬🇪IPI condemns adoption of new Foreign Agent Law, introducing harsh penalties, including fines of up to $10,000 and imprisonment of up to five years. We urge its withdrawal and reiterate our call on Georgian government to stop persecuting independent media.

Czech Republic: IPI welcomes progress on securing public media funding The International Press Institute (IPI) today welcomes the recent vote by the lower house of parliament to raise the licence fee for Czech Television (ČT) and Czech Radio (ČRo) as a vital move to…

#CzechRepublic: IPI welcomes the recent vote by the lower house of parliament to raise the licence fee for Czech Television & Czech Radio as a vital move to safeguard the long-term sustainability of the public broadcasters. Our full statement here:

🚨As the use of spyware across Europe has proliferated, so has its abuse against journalists. IPI & #MFRR partners have recorded 15 cases targeting 33 journalists or media across 10 European countries. Read the latest factsheet here:

Read more: buff.ly/0OkKf8g

Hungary: IPI warns of fresh crackdown on independent media The International Press Institute (IPI) today warns of a looming crackdown by the Hungarian government on independent media in the country, in the wake of recent incendiary comments by Prime Minister…

#Hungary: IPI today warns of a looming crackdown by the government on independent media, in the wake of recent incendiary comments by PM Orbán in which he vowed to eliminate all media outlets & other organisations that have received foreign funding.

Mapping Media Freedom: Romania: Elon Musk targets ActiveWatch on social media (2025-03-03) On 3 March 2025, American businessperson Elon Musk, owner of X, targeted Romanian human rights and…

🇷🇴#Romania: IPI stands in solidarity with ActiveWatch, a key defender of #PressFreedom in Romania, and other CSOs which became the target of baseless accusations after a roundtable on election integrity and the #EUDSA.

European Commission: Google’s non-compliance with the Digital Markets Act - ARTICLE 19 The European Commission must ensure fair competition and consumer choice and investigate Google’s non-compliance with the Digital Markets Act.

Google must comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

ARTICLE 19, alongside partners, urges the European Commission to investigate Google’s non-compliance with the DMA.

The integrity of the DMA is at stake. Action is needed now.
www.article19.org/resources/eu...

Dinko Gruhonjic. « Serbia’s public enemy number one ». His crime: independent journalism. He is under threat and must be protected @coemediafreedom.bsky.social

Council of Europe Platform report: Persistent threats to media freedom across Europe The International Press Institute (IPI) today marks the publication of a new annual report by the Council of Europe’s Platform to promote the protection of journalism and safety of journalists, which…

#Europe: IPI today marks the publication of new annual report by the Council of Europe’s Platform to promote the protection of journalism & safety of journalists, which outlines threats to #mediafreedom across the continent in 2024. Download here -

Thank you to Commissioner McGrath for providing the welcome address for the Council of Europe Journalist Safety Platform Annual Report. This support for press freedom is needed more than ever.

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2024 Europe Press Freedom Report warns about persistent threats to media freedom The risks that journalists faced covering the war of aggression of Russia against Ukraine remained the most pressing concern related to the safety of ...

We're in #Brussels with @coemediafreedom.bsky.social partners to launch the 2024 Europe Press Freedom Report. In 2024, we documented 266 cases of physical attacks, intimidation, detention, impunity - slightly below the number of alerts in 2023 (285) but significantly above pre-COVID levels.

🇸🇰#Slovakia: IPI’s Jamie Wiseman & @teonas.bsky.social were in Bratislava yesterday to mark the 7-year anniversary of murder of Slovak investigative journalist Jan Kuciak & his fiancé Martina Kušnírová, and joined Slovak journalists on stage to support their renewed call for full justice. #AllforJan

📢 #FreeMzia Today!

We demand the release of veteran journalist and IPI global network member and Founder of @netgazeti.org Mzia Amaglobeli: https://buff.ly/4gaDqyA

👉 Support this call by reposting and spreading the word in your network!

New MFRR report details press freedom threats across Europe The International Press Institute (IPI) today joins its partners in the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) in publishing its annual monitoring report which documents 1548 different attacks on…

IPI joins partners in the Media Freedom Rapid Response (#MFRR) in publishing its annual monitoring report which documents 1548 attacks on journalists & threats to #pressfreedom in EU Member States & Candidate Countries across 2024. Dig into the data here: