Media freedom report 2025

Media freedom, the first line of defence against authoritarianism, is crumbling across the EU, according to Liberties’ Media Freedom Report 2025. The Peace Institute contributed the national report for Slovenia.

The report outlines the following key issues:

Governments influence the media by allocating state funding to government-friendly outlets and using public service media for their communication tools.

Journalists face widespread threats and violence, with female journalists targeted the most, and are denied requests for information by public officials.

Weak media ownership transparency is resulting in concentrated media ownership.