Threats to Journalists in Europe INDEX
SPECIAL REPORT | NOVEMBER 2018 Demonising the media: Threats to journalists in Europe INDEX DEMONISING THE MEDIA: THREATS TO JOURNALISTS IN EUROPE ABOUT THIS REPORT ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS This document is a survey of over 3,000 violations of THIS REPORT WAS PREPARED BY press freedom reported to and verified by Index on Valeria Costa-Kostritsky, Sean Gallagher, Jodie Ginsberg, Joy Hyvarinen and Paula Kennedy with contributions from Mapping Media Freedom Censorship’s media monitoring project – Mapping correspondents: Adriana Borowicz, Ilcho Cvetanoski, João de Almeida Dias, Amanda Ferguson, Dominic Hinde, Investigative Reporting Project Media Freedom – since 2014. It covers 35 European Italy, Linas Jegelevicius, Juris Kaza, David Kraft, Lazara Marinkovic, Fatjona Mejdini, Mitra Nazar, Silvia Nortes, Platform for Independent countries, comprised of the 28 European Union Journalism (P24), Katariina Salomaki, Zoltan Sipos, Michaela Terenzani, member states, 5 candidates for entry to the EU and 2 Pavel Theiner, Helle Tiikmaa, Christina Vasilaki, Lisa Weinberger ILLUSTRATIONS potential candidates for entry to the EU. The incidents Alex Green were logged to Mapping Media Freedom between 1 DESIGN Matthew Hasteley May 2014 and 31 July 2018. 2 INDEXONCENSORSHIP.ORG MAPPINGMEDIAFREEDOM.ORG DEMONISING THE MEDIA INDEX URNED IN EFFIGY. Insulted. Menaced. Spat at. Discredited by their nation’s Bleaders. Assaulted. Sued. Homes strafed with automatic weapons. Rape threats. Death threats. Assassinations. This is the landscape faced by journalists throughout Europe over the past four years. Mapping Media Freedom has documented media freedom incidents across Europe – over 3,000 were surveyed for this report – since May 2014. The information gathered shows journalists and media outlets targeted in a kaleidoscopic array by political leaders, businesses and the general public – but some key trends have emerged from the reports recorded and verified by the platform.
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