The Vanishing Watchdog: Inside Georgia’s Assault on Independent Media
CFOM visits Brussels for the Media Freedom Rapid Response summit. Hear how journalists across Europe and in Georgia are standing up for independent reporting.
CFOM travelled to Brussels, Belgium to attend the Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) summit. The summit is organised by a consortium of organisations engaged in media freedom work designed to bring journalists, policymakers and other stakeholders together to discuss concerns of media freedom.
In this episode, we speak to Elena Rodina about the summit and the work of the MFRR. We also speak to Renate Schroeder, Director of the European Federation of Journalists, about the challenges journalists in Europe are facing, and we highlight the current threats that journalism in Georgia is facing with foreign agent laws being used to silence reporting.
We speak to Lia Chakhunashvili, Executive Director of the Georgian Charter of Journalistic Ethics, and Irma Dimitradze, Communications Manager and journalist at Gazeti Batumelebi, about the situation in Georgia and how journalists are fighting to continue delivering independent reporting.
Credits
- Host: Dr Gemma Horton (Impact Fellow for Centre for Freedom of the Media at the University of Sheffield)
- Guest: Elena Rodina (Media Freedom Rapid Response Consortium Coordinator)
- Guest: Renate Schroeder (Director of the European Federation of Journalists)
- Guest: Lia Chakunashvili (Executive Director of the Georgian Charter of Journalistic Ethics)
- Guest: Irma Dimitradze (Communications Manager at Batumelebi)
- Podcast Producer: Anna Jones (University Teacher at the University of Sheffield)