In a letter to the new President of the European Commission, a coalition of international press freedom organisations stressed the need to “ensure that media freedom, the protection of journalists, and EU citizens’ access to information are top...

The editor of the Observer has joined with press freedom campaigners to call for “robust” action against the use of lawsuits to “silence and intimidate” journalism in the public interest. Read the full article.

The businessman Arron Banks and the unofficial Brexit campaign Leave.EU have issued a legal threat against streaming giant Netflix in relation to The Great Hack, a new documentary about the Cambridge Analytica scandal and the abuse of personal...

Following the recent global conference on media freedom held in London by the UK government, we write to draw your attention to what appears to be a growing trend to use strategic litigation against public participation (“SLAPP”) lawsuits as a...

Index CEO Jodie Ginsberg appears on the British Library's podcast Anything But Silent to discuss forbidden books and the joys of being able to read whatever you want. Listen now.

During the dark days of the military dictatorship in Argentina in the 1970s, there was only one newspaper that dared to publish the names of the “disappeared” – let alone to put them every day on the front page, as Andrew Graham-Yooll did as news...

Andrew Graham-Yooll, the British-Argentine journalist who has died aged 75, was a star reporter for the Buenos Aires Herald during the “Dirty War” of the 1970s until he angered the military junta and narrowly escaped death by fleeing to Britain....