Democracy & Freedom Watch

TBILISI, DFWatch--Georgia climbs 15 places on Freedom House’s latest list of press freedom around the world. On the list Freedom of ...

Tbilisi, DFWatch - OSCE supports a draft law to reform Georgia's public broadcaster, but has some critical remarks. The organization's media ...

TBILISI, DFWatch--The supervisory board of Georgian Public Broadcaster (GPB) has dismissed the company's chairman because he fired the news chief, ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- The supervisory board of Georgia’s Public Broadcaster Wednesday elected a new director as replacement for Giorgi Chanturia, ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- The Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili has decided to finance media and non-government organizations and issued a special ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- A handful of media experts are calling for legislative reforms to address problems with media freedom in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- A TV company affiliated with the governing Georgian Dream coalition is going to become a general broadcaster. Thursday ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili claims he is ready to give his TV channel to Georgian Public Broadcaster ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- A new report shows that Georgian TV companies have problems with bringing balanced and objective information. Channel 9, ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- A former owner of a Georgian TV station claims that he was forced to sell it by ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- A TV channel controlled by the former Saakashvili’s government on Wednesday got a new director, who used ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- A former editor of Forbes Georgia has been appointed as new director of Imedi TV, which used ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- Georgian TV viewers will get a new channel in the near future, to be produced by the ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- The audit agency in Georgia wants the chair of the Public Broadcaster to be changed, while groups ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- It is still unknown what will happen to a Russian language TV channel based in Georgia. PIK TV ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- Georgia’s Public Broadcaster has abolished its contract with the Russian language TV station PIK, which has been ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- Civic groups in Georgia Friday presented an eight-point plan for how to improve the media environment in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- Another pro-government television station has been sold in the wake of the parliamentary election in Georgia: Real ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- A government-controlled TV channel is in the process of be transferred back to the family of its ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- The director of a government-controlled TV channel and a key figure after the rose revolution has left ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- Journalists of TV channel PIK Monday evening expressed protest in an unusual way: When viewers tuned in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- The government is offering TV stations exemption from paying outstanding tax debts. This will mostly benefit two ...

TBILISI, DFWatch -- There is a crisis in pro-government TV in Georgia, after an opposition coalition won the parliamentary election. October ...

The founders of Rustavi 2, a TV company are fighting to get back control which they claimed was forcefully deprived ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The ruling party says the current parliamentary speaker and the prime minister will represent it in election ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A journalist and a cameraman were beaten while investigating the illegal cutting of trees in eastern Georgia. Journalists ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Police have arrested a man accused of beating a cameraman working for an opposition affiliated media outlet. The ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A new report concludes that some of the public service ads in Georgia contain a political message. The ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's National Communications Commission (GNCC) Monday published data about the implementation of the must-carry and must-offer principles. 193 ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – For more than a month, journalists with an opposition-leaning news service in Georgia have been followed around ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgia's National Communications Commission (GNCC) claims that broadcasters will be forced to air free political commercials, even ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – A report sent out by a Georgian news agency led to controversy Tuesday. GHN's report said that after ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The must-carry and must-offer principle is starting to have effect also around Georgia’s different regions. People living in ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – The popular newspaper Alia, which has been published in Georgia since 1995, has been fined about USD ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The media regulatory body in Georgia Thursday said a cable station was trying to politicize the situation ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Around ten youth activists today protested outside the Georgian National Communication Commission against the fining of a ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - In the Georgian capital, news hungry citizens can now get their daily update from a bright red ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - A civil rights group in Georgia wants a new set of rules to ensure that the country's ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Media workers in the former Soviet republic of Georgia met Wednesday to reaffirm their mutual pledge to ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Time Magazine called it one of the greatest hoaxes in history. But 33% of Georgians still trust ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The new TV station being established by people around Georgian opposition financier Bidzina Ivanishvili is being sued. It’s ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Two employees of a TV station in Tbilisi who were arrested four days ago have been sentenced ...

TBILISI, DFWatch – Representatives of Georgian media gathered today at the office of Obiektivi, an internet based radio and television ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Representatives of the media, press distributors and other supporters gathered Friday in front of the Holiday Inn ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian TV stations have released information about who owns them. It has long been a general impression, but ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - As a bundle of election related bills are up for final review in parliament, it became clear ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Editor of newspaper Rezonansi Eliso Chapidze (pictured) and a group of media workers Friday submitted a bill ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - One of the chain of newspapers outlets in Tbilisi tell of a more than 80% drop in sales. ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian media workers Monday continued the campaign to raise awareness of the pressure they are coming under ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - An attack on one is an attack on all. That’s the principle for a new organization formed ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Journalists working for an embattled Georgian TV station today called for solidarity and announced that they will ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The crisis continues at independent Georgian TV station Maestro, as suspicion is growing that the interference is ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Journalists at Maestro were pacing nervously around in the TV station’s yard Wednesday afternoon, still physically prevented ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - An independent TV station in Tbilisi was taken off air Wednesday morning, the day after businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - Georgian publishers, journalists, editors and others rallied in front of Tbilisi’s City Hall high rise Tuesday to ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The script writer for a new TV show has broken off his cooperation with businessman Bidzina Ivanishvili, ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - In 2011, several journalists have lost their job for simply expressing their opinion on the internet. The ability ...

TBILISI, DFWatch - The chair of Georgia's media regulatory commission keeps back from interfering when TV stations break the advertising ...

Journalists Wednesday responded to the wealthiest Georgian Bidzina Ivanishvili's call for them to form an alliance to unseat Mikheil Saakashvili, ...

The public broadcaster and two independent TV stations are competing to carry the political debut of Georgia's richest man. First, the ...

The billionaire businessman who said he would run in the next election has received a cold shoulder from two independent ...

Three journalists and four media companies filed an administrative lawsuit at Tbilisi city court Tuesday morning against Georgia's Ministry of ...

The reason journalist Shalva Ramishvili wanted to get into Mikheil Saakashvili's vineyard on Sunday was that the president was hosting ...