Michael Leidig

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Michael Leidig (born 19 April 1965) is a British journalist based in Vienna, Austria. He has worked for Austrian and international media in print and broadcast. He was also the owner of CEN, the news wire agency Central European News Ltd, which operated from 1995 to 2024. He is the co-founder of the independent freelance journalism initiative the ''Fourth Estate Alliance'' (T4).

Central European News has been referred to by BuzzFeed as "The King of Bullsh*t News" due to a number of stories that CEN had been selling that Buzzfeed claimed were false. One such story BuzzFeed reported that CEN was selling was that 17 year old Noa Pothoven was killed by euthanasia, rather than the truth, which was that she had refused to be tube fed. CEN sued BuzzFeed over the story, alleging that it was attempting to damage CEN after it opened offices in London, and when the suit was dismissed, CEN filed an appeal which is under review in a New York Federal Court as of 2019. Provided by Wikipedia