Journalists from Nigeria (Wana Udobang), Turkey (Kaya Genc) and Malta (Caroline Muscat) talk about how to fight back against attempts to censor reporting, what works and doesn't work as well as what i...
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Rachael Jolley
editor Index on Censorship
Rachael Jolley is the editor of the global quarterly Index on Censorship magazine, a magazine that has correspondents around the world reporting on free expression issues. She is a journalist with 20 years experience writing and editing for newspapers, magazines, and websites, including as a news reporter for the UK’s biggest regional morning paper the Eastern Daily Press, as features editor for ITV Teletext on digital and web in the early days of web journalism, and as editor and managing editor of Business Traveller and Business Traveller Middle East. She also worked in senior editorial roles in UK think tanks including the Fabian Society and British Future. She has written for The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, The Times, The New Statesman and The Spectator, among others. She appears as a commentator of television and radio including Sky TV, BBC Radio 3, Radio 4 and LBC. She also co-wrote the play Murdering the Truth.
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