Dutch crime reporter, one of the Netherlands’ best-known journalists, was shot and seriously injured on Tuesday evening in a street in downtown Amsterdam shortly after leaving the studios of RTL TV.
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The June 10-11 ministerial conference on Media and Democracy co-hosted by Cyprus and the Council of Europe shone a rare spotlight on the actions of European governments accused of persecuting journalists and ‘state capture’ of media. Last Friday the Ministers issued four political resolutions and a Final Declaration and approved a “roadmap” for the 47 member states aimed at reversing the general decline in media freedom, through intense political efforts to ensure that states implement their obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights.
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A new UNESCO Research Discussion Paper entitled “The Chilling: Global trends in online violence against women journalists” finds that online violence has become the new frontline in journalism safety – and that women journalists sit at the epicentre of risk.
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The UNESCO Chair on Media Freedom, Journalism Safety and the Issue of Impunity, held by Professor Jackie Harrison, joins UNESCO, the University of Nambia and OsloMet in the organising committee of the 6th Academic Conference on the Safety of Journalists held during the 2021 World Press Freedom Day celebrations.
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The Journalism Safety Research Network (JSRN) launches a new Research Repository with research presented during the 2020 World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) Academic Conference in The Hague. The conference was organised by UNESCO, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands and Leiden University.
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