Why does it matter? Why don’t we just ban it or make it illegal if it can be used for all these harmful purposes?
Anonymity: worth defending
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Rachael Jolley
Rachael Jolley is a former editor-in-chief of Index on Censorship magazine. Having started as a news reporter on a regional newspaper, she moved on to writing for magazines, newspapers and websites in the UK and internationally (including The Times, the Financial Times and The Guardian). She has been editorial director at think tank British Future, managing editor for monthly magazine Business Traveller, and editor of Business Traveller Middle East, as well as Head of Online for the Fabian Society. She writes regularly for the New Statesman and other publications and co-wrote the play Murdering The Truth (Greenwich Theatre).
Risky business: Journalists around the world under direct attack
The truth is in danger. Working with reporters and writers around the world, Index continually hears first-hand stories of the pressures of reporting, and of how journalists are too afraid to write or broadcast because of what might happen next.
How Shakespeare’s plays smuggle in protest
Protest, dissent and controversy are all found within the pages of Shakespeare’s plays. Index on Censorship editor Rachael Jolley introduces a Shakespeare special issue as the 400th anniversary of his death approaches
Editorial: Talk does not cost lives, silence does
Societies often endanger lives by creating taboos, rather than letting citizens openly discuss stigmas and beliefs
Autumn magazine 2015: Spies, secrets and lies
The autumn issue of Index on Censorship magazine is filled to the brim with stories and analysis from across the globe has a special report on the censors of old and new
Editorial: Spies in the new machines
These days spies are just as likely to be inside your machine as outside your home, says Rachael Jolley
Shades of McCarthyism as global academic freedom challenged
Editor Rachael Jolley explains why the latest Index on Censorship magazine is focusing on academic freedom, with a look at current threats from around the worldwide, from Ukraine to the US
Rafael Marques de Morais: “They can lock me up, but they don’t get to silence me”
When you go up against the big guns of any state, you know they will throw everything at you. Investigative journalist Rafael Marques de Morais has learned this hard lesson in the last few days
Wired up: why refugees in exile remain silenced
People who have fled dangerous regimes now use free apps and digital connections to stay in touch with their former home, but they often worry that those networks can also be used against them, says Rachael Jolley
Winter 2014: Drafting freedom to last
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text="Packed inside this issue, are; an interview with fantasy writer Neil Gaiman; new cartoons from South America drawn especially for this magazine by Bonil and Rayma; new poetry from Australia; and the first...
Painting over the Clacton Banksy? Does nobody understand satire any more?
All it seems to take is for one person to think that something’s ‘racist’ …
Will the future of journalism make us better informed?
When the subject of the future of journalism is discussed it often turns to whizzy gadgets but the debate about whether the public ends up being better informed happens less often, says editor Rachael Jolley as she introduces the latest Index on Censorship magazine