Author: Michael Quinn

Lies, damned lies, and the state capture of Polish public television

Lies, damned lies, and the state capture of Polish public television

Posted by | Feb 26, 2019 | |

On a snowy February 2019 evening over 150 demonstrators gathered in front of the public television (TVP) building in the centre of Warsaw. We shouted “Shame!”, “Employ journalists!”, and “TVP lies!”. The old theme tune of communist era TV news blared out of loudspeakers as an accompaniment to the protest. A squad of police officers had cordoned off the entrance to the building and was escorting TVP employees as they came out through the angry crowd.

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Dear foreign secretary, here’s how to protect journalists and press freedom

Dear foreign secretary, here’s how to protect journalists and press freedom

Posted by | Feb 26, 2019 | |

William Horsley, the International Director and Co-Founder of CFOM, writes about the Foreign Secretary’s decision to make the safety of journalists a flagship policy. Clear that this is an important step from Jeremy Hunt, William lays out, in a piece originally published by The Conversation, several tips to making a success of the policy.

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