AEJ Belgium is a member of the EU Media Advocacy Working Group (WG) that first convened in autumn 2019. Following the initiative of the Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD), the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), and the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) to answer to a need for a dedicated space to share information, coordinate efforts, and collaborate together regarding the increasing number of media policy priorities within the EU.
Since then, the group has expanded to include organisations working across the EU and EU Neighbourhood countries. The group meets on at least a monthly basis to share information and updates about ongoing advocacy, while also providing a space for organisations with shared media-related advocacy objectives to work together more efficiently.
For more information: https://policy-advocacy.gfmd.info/gfmd-initiatives/eu-media-advocacy-working-group
Here is the list of the organisations who have representatives participating in the EU Media Advocacy Working Group as active members or as observers.
- AEJ Association of European Journalists
- Agora (Poland)
- AIJ International Alliance of Journalists
- AMARC Europea
- AMO Action for International Affairs
- ARTICLE 19
- Avaaz
- BBC Media Action
- BIRN Balkan Investigative Journalism Network
- CIMA Center for International Media Assistance
- CFI Media Development
- CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists
- DCGF Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation
- Democratic Society
- Digital Action
- Disinfo.eu
- DRI Democracy Reporters International
- DW Akademie Deutsche Welle Akademie
- EBU European Broadcasting Union
- ECPMF European Centre for Press & Media Freedom
- EDMO European Digital Media Observatory
- EDRi European Digital Rights
- EFJ European Federation of Journalists
- Empower House (Denmark)
- EPD European Partnership for Democracy
- Faktograf – the Association for the Informed Public
- FPU Free Press Unlimited
- Fondation Hirondelle
- Human Rights Society
- IFD Forum of Information and Democracy
- GFMD Global Forum for Media Development
- GNI Global Network Initiative
- Index of Censorship
- IFEX International Freedom Exchange
- IPI International Press Institute
- IMS International Media Support
- Internews
- KAS Konrad Adenaeur Stiftung
- Lie Detectors
- Media4 Democracy
- Media Defence
- MDI Media Diversity Institute
- MFRR Media Freedom Rapid Response
- News Gain
- OBCT Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa
- OCCRP Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Network
- OSF Open Society Foundations
- Pen International
- PUHF Polytechnic University of Hauts-de-France
- Reset (Luminate Group)
- RSF Reporters Without Borders
- SEEMO South East Europe Media Organisation
- Stiftung Neue Verantwortung
- Transitions
- Transparency International
- UNESCO United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
- Vikes
- WACC World Association for Christian Communication
- WAN-IFRA World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers
- Wikimedia