Albania: MFRR and Safe Journalist Network condemn attack on…
The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) and the Safe Journalists Network condemn the shocking physical attack on Albanian journalist Elvis Hila and his wife.
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Albania: Media must not face criminal prosecution for public…
The undersigned media freedom and journalist associations express shared concern over the blanket publication ban issued by Albanian prosecutorial authorities regarding a trove of hacked data.
Albania: Press freedom groups call for a fair trial…
A group of media freedom and freedom of expression organisations and journalist unions and associations are concerned by the defamation lawsuit filed against journalist Isa Myzyraj.
Albania: MFRR partners join an open letter to Prime…
The partner organisations of the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) today join an open letter to Prime Minister Edi Rama from international press freedom groups over decision to ban journalists from press conferences.
Albania: Private data breaches and intimidation of journalists must…
The MFRR, together with Safe Journalists Network and RSF, have written Mr. Besnik Dervishi, Commissioner for the Right to Access to Information and Personal Data Protection of Albania, calling for a thorough investigation into a recent private data breach and intimidation of journalists in Albania.
Albanian ‘Ministry of Propaganda’: Where we are today?
New government Media and Information Agency (MIA) up and running. Lines of communication between the Albanian government and the media have long been tenuous. Whoever is in power picks and chooses the media they interact with and feeds them with information to report, whereas those who are out of favour or ask difficult questions often find themselves sidelined.
Albania: news outlets faced cyber attacks following reports about…
The partners in the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) are worried about developments in Albania this week. Cyber-attacks on news outlets believed to be in relation to their reporting on Tirana’s Mayor Erion Veliaj and the appointment of government loyalist Endri Fuga to lead the Media and Information Agency add to existing challenges for media freedom in the country.
The struggles of Albania’s 30-year-old media landscape
Anti-defamation package and new information agency pose fresh challenges
Alice Taylor, IPI member & co-editor of exit.al
Albania: MFRR urges government to scrap new Media and…
MFRR partners have serious concerns about plans for a new agency that would centralise control over the government’s public relations within a single entity
Albania: Concern after government ally elected to head key…
The Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) today expresses deep concern about the future impartiality and independence of Albania’s Audiovisual Media Authority (AMA) following the election of a close associate of the ruling Socialist Party to head the media regulator.
