Editors, ministers and lawyers have criticised the Metropolitan Police for encroaching on press freedom by warning journalists they could face...
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‘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...
This week at Index: Media freedom needs more than just warm words
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Foreign minister commits to public inquiry within three months (The Shift)
International press freedom and human rights organisations raise Daphne Caruana Galizia case at global media conference in London. Read the full...
Turkish think-tank report escalates harassment of journalists
Index on Censorship, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and 18 other human rights and freedom of expression organisations condemn a Turkish pro-government think-tank’s report that accuses leading international media of being biased against the government and singles out their correspondents for attack.
Russia: Press freedom violations June 2019
There were 32 incidents in Russia in June 2019 recorded by Index’s monitoring project.
It’s now clear who Jeremy Hunt has banned from his ‘media freedom’ event. Irony is dead. (Canary)
Irony, it seems, is dead. Because foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt has barred journalists from attending the UK government’s ‘media freedom’ conference...
Governments must not “cherry pick” media outlets
Index on Censorship condemns the decision by the UK Foreign Office to deny accreditation to Russia’s RT and Sputnik news agencies to attend its media freedom conference.
Governments must uphold existing global commitments to protect media
States must uphold existing global commitments to protect media but also be willing to speak out publicly when others fail to protect journalists and journalism, Index on Censorship said on Tuesday.
What an image of Trump golfing says about political cartooning (Big Think, 6 July 2019)
A Canadian political cartoonist started a firestorm of controversy and lost his jobs with several newspapers after drawing an image of Donald Trump...
History, humour and humility: Remembering Andrew Graham-Yooll (Buenos Aires Times)
Andrew Graham-Yooll, the respected, influential and talented writer and journalist whose experiences with Argentina’s brutal 1976-1983 military...
Debate on Julian Assange at London’s Frontline Club for journalists (World Socialist Web Site)
The Frontline Club, bringing together journalists and photographers with an interest in war reporting and international relations, organised a...