Ireland Ireland's Sinn Fein urged to stop suing critical journalists Left-wing party has a reputation for aggressively pursuing its media critics, particularly via the court system. 22/11/2023
World News The UN says freedom of expression is being threatened across the globe The UN says freedom of expression is under threat around the world with journalists being murdered and facing threats, intimidation and violence for trying to report the truth. 19/05/2023
Hungary Press Freedom Index shows journalism under threat around the world Reporters Without Borders warned that media freedom around the world is in a bad state with disinformation, propaganda, and artificial intelligence posing an increasing threat to journalism. 03/05/2023
Top News Stories Today Dutch regulator grants Russian TV Rain broadcasting licence The moves comes after Latvia cancelled TV Rain's licence in early December after the company was branded a threat to national security. 10/01/2023
World News Reporters Without Borders says a record 533 journalists are imprisoned worldwide Reporters Without Borders has cited Iran's crackdown on protests for pushing the number of journalists in prison to a record high of 533. 14/12/2022
World News EU countries 'caught between two extremes' over press freedom "Polarisation to the west, war and propaganda to the east" is how Reporters Without Borders sums up the press freedom situation in the EU. 03/05/2022
World News Record number of journalists arbitrarily detained worldwide, RSF says A total of 488 journalists and media workers were in prison in mid-December 2021, Reporters Without Borders said, including 60 women. 16/12/2021
Hungary Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán a 'predator', says Reporters Without Borders Press watchdog Reporters Without Borders has put Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on its list of “predators" for attacking media freedoms. 05/07/2021
World News Which countries are Europe's worst for journalistic freedom? Monday marks World Press Freedom Day, so amid what RSF has called a ‘dramatic deterioration in access to information’, Euronews takes a look at the 10 worst countries in Europe for press freedom. 03/05/2021
World News Pandemic causes ‘dramatic deterioration’ to news access, watchdog says Reporters without Borders warns governments are using the coronavirus pandemic as a means to crack down on freedom of the press. 20/04/2021
France Complaint filed against Facebook over online hate and disinformation Reporters Without Borders (RSF) claims that the "massive proliferation" of hate messages and false information on Facebook violates the platform's commitments to online users. 23/03/2021
World News Belarus was Europe's most dangerous country for journalists in 2020 Reporters were caught up in the mass arrests that followed the disputed reelection of President Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus 29/12/2020
World News Reporters living in 'intense climate of fear', says press freedom body Journalists in Europe and around the world are risking violence and persecution according to the international watchdog Reporters Without Borders 18/04/2019
Venezuela French and Spanish reporters detained in Venezuela have been freed The French and Spanish reporters arrested in Venezuela on Wednesday have been freed. 30/01/2019
France 80 journalists were killed in 2018, says watchdog Eighty journalists were killed so far this year, 348 are in prison and 60 are being held hostage according to Reporters Sans Frontieres. 18/12/2018
Czech Republic Czech presidident references Khashoggi death in jibe at journalists “I love journalists, that’s why I may organise a special banquet for them this evening at the Saudi embassy,” Zeman said. 26/10/2018