After a warning from Reporters Without Borders (RSF) about a “press freedom state of emergency” in Poland, the hardline government that’s challenging the European Union over rule of law extended a broadcasting license for news channel TVN24, but is still squeezing media outlets.

The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to journalists Maria Ressa of the Philippines and Dmitry Muratov, for fighting for media freedom in the Philippines and Russia respectively - the first time the Peace Prize has been given to reporters since 1935

Overturning a previous ruling, the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Court of Appeal sided with lawyer Bernard Collaery's bid for an open trial as he faces charges of revealing national security information about the alleged bugging of East Timor's government.

Named for a Greek myth about a sealed box containing the world's evils, The Pandora Papers – the work of 600 journalists in 117 countries who pored through 11.9 million leaked confidential records – showed how the world's elite and powerful, from business leaders to kings and politicians – hide their wealth.

The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) Court of Appeal has sided with Blueprint International Whistleblowing Prize winner Bernard Collaery in his bid for an open trial

On Friday 24 September, the trial for harassment at work of TV cameraman Fito Ferreiro Seoane (A Coruña, 1962), a well-known LGTBI activist in Galicia, was held in the Social Court No. 3 of Santiago de Compostela. The plaintiff denounced Televisión de Galicia, where he has worked for 36 years, for the situation of "harassment at work".

With independent media in Russia being declared “Foreign Agents”, TV Rain (Dozhd) Chief Editor Tikhon Dzyadko is taking drastic measures against his station’s broadcasters being targeted.

Earlier this year, we drew attention to the case of Fito Ferreiro Seoane, a cameraman from A Coruña in Spain who has worked at public broadcaster Televisión de Galicia (TVG) since 1985.

As pressure within the European Union mounts for community-wide measures to combat SLAPP suits, an Australian mining company is trying to deter a group of activists and environmental lawyers from opposing its plan to set up a titanium mine in South Africa

Epicenter.works and Amnesty Austria were present at the Regional Court in St. Pölten last week to monitor the trial of Julian Hessenthaler, which opened on Wednesday 8 September. Private detective and journalistic source Hessenthaler is a key figure in the production of the Ibizagate affair, which exposed high level corruption and brought down Austria's far right coalition government in 2019.

We‘re very proud to announce the release of our Model Draft law to protect whistleblowers in Germany.