GIJC23 Legal Defense & Emergency Aid Press Freedom
How Journalists Can Protect against Slapp Cases and Other Legal Threats
How journalists can identify whether they’ve been hit with a SLAPP suit — and resources for helping journalists fight back.
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GIJC23 – Fighting Back Against SLAPPs & Other Legal Threats
Journalists are facing a worldwide legal assault from a growing arsenal of abused laws, from national security and emergency edicts to libel and privacy statutes. Harassment lawsuits, while always a threat, have mushroomed in use by the rich and powerful to silence watchdog reporting. SLAPP suits (“strategic lawsuits against public participation”), are one variant and […]
Case Studies Member Profiles
How a Wiretapping Scandal Reinforced the Need for Independent Media in Greece
The Greek wiretapping story has become an international scandal. But for months, the only outlets covering the story were small independent ones like Reporters United, whose dogged reporting has shaken up the country’s media landscape.
News & Analysis
In a Hostile Climate, Guatemala’s Journalists Fear the Law Being Turned Against Them
The award-winning Guatemalan journalist José Rubén Zamora is the founder of elPeriódico, a publication known for its investigations focused on government corruption. When he was arrested last year, local and international organizations called for his immediate release amid concerns of rising hostility to the press in the Central American country.
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Data Journalism Top 10: Migrant Deaths, Alps Skiing, Ukraine’s Outages, Deadly Deer
Our weekly NodeXL and human curation of the most popular data journalism stories looks at mapping migrant deaths in Singapore, tracking Russian airstrikes and Ukraine power outages, “authorized deforestation” in Mali and Côte D’Ivoire, and analysis of the best value when skiing in Switzerland.
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#NotebookGate: How Nigeria’s Dataphyte Exposed Corruption in Government Contracts
How investigative journalist Olanrewaju Oyedeji, from Nigeria’s Dataphyte, exposed corruption in government notebook contracts by analyzing data from the state’s online procurement portal.
News & Analysis Press Freedom
Forced Out: Latin America’s Investigative Reporters Pushed into Exile
A press freedom crisis is rippling across Latin America and in some places the technological, legal, and physical threats have grown so severe that investigative journalists feel compelled to flee their home countries to keep reporting.
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The Challenges Facing Student Investigative Journalists: Censorship, Legal Intimidation, Lack of Funding, and Even Violent Physical Attacks
While there are plenty of examples of student investigative reporters who are supported by their institutions, there are many others who face a lack of cooperation, low pay, legal threats, funding issues, and even physical harm.