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  1. Media freedom is ‘under sustained attack’ across the EU as public trust drops, a report finds.

    Journalists in the EU face increasing levels of harassment, threats and violence, while news outlets are owned by a shrinking number of proprietors, and public trust in the media has plummeted, a report by the Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties) has found.

    mediafaro.org/article/20260428

    #JournalistSafety #PressFreedom #Media #InvestigativeJournalism #CivilLiberties #EU #Europe

  2. #violence against reporters!
    by Eric Berger, the Guardian

    “The US #press have suffered about as many #assaults this year as in the previous three years combined, the Freedom of the Press Foundation states in a new report.”

    “When the president models ridicule and #delegitimization it signals to [his] supporters that journalists are fair #targets,” said Lars Willnat, a Syracuse University professor who has studied the impact of political #polarization on perceptions of #journalists. “That shift matters because violence becomes easier to justify once journalists are seen as political #combatants rather than neutral observers.”
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