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‘Maltese journalists need to know the government can and will protect them’ (The Shift News)
Maltese journalists need to know the authorities and the government “can, and will, protect them”, Barrister Caoilfhionn Gallagher of Doughty Street...
International organisations urge Commission President to prioritise press freedom (The Shift News)
In a letter to the new President of the European Commission, a coalition of international press freedom organisations stressed the need to “ensure...
Observer editor joins call for action against lawsuits used to ‘silence’ journalism (Press Gazette)
The editor of the Observer has joined with press freedom campaigners to call for “robust” action against the use of lawsuits to “silence and...
Brexit funder Arron Banks threatens Netflix over Great Hack documentary (The Guardian)
The businessman Arron Banks and the unofficial Brexit campaign Leave.EU have issued a legal threat against streaming giant Netflix in relation to...
Letter: press freedom campaigners call for action on ‘vexatious lawsuits’ (The Guardian)
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...
Vitality in the face of horror and sorrow (Buenos Aires Times)
When Andrew came to visit us in the past few years at the offices of Index on Censorship magazine, he was always full of jokes and stories. But he didn’t tend to tell us about the struggles of the past, unless we prompted him to do so.
Anything But Silent: [Redacted] (British Library)
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...
Andrew Graham-Yooll obituary (The Guardian)
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...
Police should be helping to uphold the freedom of the press – not shutting it down (The Telegraph)
Neil Basu was wrong to threaten journalists who publish leaked information. The Metropolitan Police’s Assistant Commissioner – who said on Friday...
Andrew Graham-Yooll, Telegraph and Buenos Aires Herald correspondent who risked his life reporting on Argentina’s ‘missing’ (The Telegraph)
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”...
‘Police state’: Media and MPs decry Met Police threats to prosecute journalists who publish leaked Kim Darroch cables (Independent)
Editors, ministers and lawyers have criticised the Metropolitan Police for encroaching on press freedom by warning journalists they could face...
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