Occupy Public Media!
By Olaf Steenfadt “Show me what your public broadcaster looks Read More …
Category: Discussion Series
Europe’s Journalists Caught in Widening National Security Net
While Slovenian Prime Minister Miro Cerar joined other European leaders to march for media freedom following the attack on Charlie Hebdo last month, Anuska Delic, a journalist at the country’s leading daily Delo, was standing trial for publishing classified information, a criminal charge that carries a maximum three-year sentence. Read More …
When satire incites hatred: Charlie Hebdo and the freedom of expression debate
Posted on January 27, 2015 By Peter Noorlander, Media Legal Read More …
Best practices for securing digital communications
Engaging in sound practices on communications security should not be limited to those who believe that they might at risk of government surveillance. Improving security is an reiterative process that is as much about education as technology. Read More …
Navigating Risks to Digital Security
Journalists, civil society and activists face a variety of security and privacy risks when communicating online, ranging from hacking by criminal organizations to information requests to companies by government officials. This diversity of threats is important not only to understanding the myriad of risks to digital communications but also to helping individuals and organizations to make sound decisions about the communication devices and tools they use. Read More …
Finding Justice for Whistleblowers
Whistleblowers are of crucial importance to journalists. They have helped break stories ranging from the Enron scandal in the United States—which revealed corporate malpractice on an (until then) unprecedented scale—to Israel’s then-secret nuclear weapons program in the 1970s. Read More …
On the Road to more Transparency: Access to Information under Article 10 ECHR
This contribution focuses on this latter aspect, after briefly exploring some of the characteristics and recent developments of the Strasbourg’s Court case law on strengthening and protecting public debate, investigative journalism, the role of civil society and the emerging recognition of the importance to protect whistleblowers as a form of participation to public debate and transparency. Read More …
Best Practices and Tips for Using Confidential Sources
Although many countries offer legal safeguards protecting journalists’ sources, those protections are often uncertain and cannot be presumed, such that ultimately source protection is a personal ethical issue for each journalist. Read More …
On Protection of Journalistic Sources
Disclosure of sources is one of the more tricky areas for media lawyers and journalists. But the importance of sources to journalists cannot be understated: they are a reporter’s meat and drink. Even more so is the confidential source, who asks for anonymity because more often than not they are an insider, a cuckoo in the nest, and whose job or livelihood may be at risk if they are identifiable. Read More …