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...
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.
At least 52 journalists were killed in 2018, 33 of who were murdered in retaliation for their work. The brutal murder of Jamal Khashoggi and continuing impunity for those who ordered and carried out h...
Organized or state-instigated attacks against journalists, news organizations or the very idea of news itself range from intimidation to assassination: A social media campaign urging the gang rape of ...
New winds of censorship are blowing in not only from the Middle East and Africa, areas traditionally plagued by a troubled relationship between media and power, but also from the Americas and Europe...
Have journalists ever been under pressure from so many directions and how can they combat those pressures? This session looks at the power of propaganda machines to influence, or try to influence, the...
Unfortunately, the need for crisis reporting abounds. However, for a variety of reasons, many journalists can be no more than spectators, with little opportunity to develop substantial insights into...
Turkey ranks in 149th place in the Reporters without Borders World Press Freedom Index, below Zimbabwe and Burma/Myanmar. In its 2014 report, Freedom House demoted Turkish media from being “partly...