Germany will summon the Belarus ambassador after Minsk revoked accreditations of foreign media reporters covering the country's anti-government protests, a government source said on Sunday.
For the past week the German media has been rocked by the Claas Relotius scandal. With Relotius today agreeing to hand back his awards, the sheer scale of his lies and fabrications is slowly becoming clear.
Germany stagnated in rankings of the world’s media released by Reporters Without Borders (RWB) on Wednesday, while the report claimed global media freedom in the ‘post-truth’ era is more threatened than ever.
It is hard to believe, given that the Nazi term "Lügenpresse" has recently been re-popularized by the far right, but the media has never been as trusted in Germany as now, a new study claims.
Germany's radio and television broadcaster Deutsche Welle on Tuesday condemned the confiscation of an interview it had conducted with a Turkish minister as a "blatant violation" of press freedom.
The chief editor of Turkish newspaper Hurriyet was on Monday presented with a Freedom of Speech award by German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle as concerns grow over press freedom in Turkey.
The world's most striking press images go on display in Hamburg, northern Germany on Friday, when the World Press Photo 2012 exhibition opens its doors to visitors.
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán has played down German criticism of his government's controversial new media laws, saying Hungary was conforming to European Union rules.
A group of major German newspapers and a human rights advocacy group Thursday published an appeal against the criminalisation of whistleblower website Wikileaks, saying the site deserved as much protection as traditional media.
Journalists who publish leaked government information would be able to protect their sources from exposure under planned laws to enshrine stronger press freedom, the German Justice Ministry has announced.
Michael Schumacher's stunning decision to dust off his racing helmet and come out of retirement to help Ferrari in their hour of need had the German media in raptures on Thursday.
The German Press Council, a voluntary self-monitoring watchdog organisation for journalists, condemned tabloid <i>Bild</i>'s coverage of the Winnenden school shooting in a statement released on its website Friday.
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives licked their wounds on Monday after historic losses in a Bavarian state election, as German voters continued to abandon major parties a year ahead of the national poll.
Chinese authorities have forced the last international journalists - German reporters Georg Blume and Kristin Kupfer - from Tibet as violence escalates in the region.
