Conference review: Defending journalists under threat
This article was published first by JW Christie, Netopia
The contemporary threats to journalists extend to all reaches in media, and in some cases, threaten media freedom – reports "Netopia" from the ECPMF conference “Defending journalists under threat” in Leipzig, Germany.
ECPMF conference "Defending journalists under threat" (copyright: Andreas Lamm/ ECPMF)
Held at the Leipzig School of Media, set in the grounds of the European Centre for Press and Media Freedom, a modern building full of clean lines, full-length windows and wood panelling is not the sort of place one would associate with the accounts of being threatened by ISIS or watching migrants struggle for life, but…