“It’s difficult for me to believe that the motives behind so many frequent and intense inspections are anything but political”
CATEGORY: Media Freedom
Jimmy Wales: Fake news “a quantum leap we should be very concerned about”
“The advertising-only business model has been incredibly destructive for journalism,” said Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales at a Westminster Media Forum event on “fake news”
British MP condemns chilling libel cases faced by Daphne Caruana Galizia’s family
Maltese libel laws are having an incredibly chilling effect on journalism and free speech, said British MP Tom Brake at a parliamentary meeting.
Media freedom in Honduras: “The noose is tightening”
“The noose is tightening around the Honduran people more than ever,” says Dana Frank, professor at UC Santa Cruz, specialising in human rights and US policy in post-coup Honduras, adding that with this comes increased repression of the media.
Calls for justice mark six months since Daphne Caruana Galizia’s murder
Attendees of the London vigil demand an end to impunity and a proper investigation into the Maltese journalist’s death
The Commonwealth: Where being a journalist can kill you
The record of Commonwealth countries concerning the rising number of killings of journalists — whose work holds a mirror up to the societies they live in – points to a dismal failure by the authorities in some member states.
Confronting SLAPP suits: Don’t let them silence you
As part of our work on media freedom, Index on Censorship is launching a campaign to raise awareness among journalists and activists about the increasing use of legal threats as a means of silencing critics and investigative reporting.
Media in exile: Eurasia’s last vestiges of freedom of expression
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Can Dündar, editor-in-chief of Cumhuriyyet, one of Turkey’s most popular newspapers, was awaiting an appeal on...
In Portugal’s media crisis, photojournalists often pull the shortest straw
“Green receipts” are a way for independent or freelance workers in Portugal to charge companies for their services on an occasional basis, but the system is often abused
New report assesses the state of US press freedoms, shows protests were the most dangerous place for US journalists in 2017
The most perilous place for a journalist in the U.S. last year was at a protest, according to a new report released Tuesday by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press that surveys the 2017 data from the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.
Media freedom is under threat worldwide. Journalists are threatened, jailed and even killed simply for doing their job.
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