Free European Media conference: While we look into the future we also have to look to the past
By Jane Whyatt
Europe’s media freedom community is meeting on February 15th and 16th in the historic setting of Gdansk’s European Solidarity Centre for the Free European Media conference, to build support for critical journalists under threat. In an interview with ECPMF the President of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) outlines the challenges and hopes.
"Leaders are not defending the freedom of the media but attacking it" Mogens Blicher Bjerregård, EFJ President
Under the banner of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), delegates have a wide-ranging agenda of current concerns. They also draw on the town’s heroic history of fighting for free…