Europe’s refugee crisis, reporting on terror and cybersecurity for both journalists and sources formed the focus of discussion at the International Journalism Festival in Perugia last week.
“We try and reflect what’s going on around us on our planet, and obviously security, terrorism, migration are issues which can hardly be avoided,” said festival co-founder Christopher Potter.
Peter Greste, imprisoned by Egyptian authorities for 400 days for reporting in the country, was warmly received in a packed Sala dei Notari to talk about how the war on terror was encroaching on the spaces where journalists are able to operate. He highlighted CPJ figures that more journalists have been killed or imprisoned in the past couple of years than at any time since before the 2000s.
He pointed out that internet journalists are the most likely to be imprisoned as governments increasingly see them as the most challenging to authorities. For the full article click here
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