May 3rd is Press Freedom Day, but around the world, journalists are being harassed, oppressed, even attacked. This Inside Geneve podcast looks how at what more can be done to better journalists.\xa0
Podcast host Imogen Foulkes is joined in this by episode by journalists and NGOs that defend press freedom.\xa0
\u201cWe need to work on ending the culture of impunity that governments seem to enjoy when it comes to targeting and harassing journalists,\u201d says Clayton Weimers, Reporters without Borders USA.\xa0
What are the threats journalists have to face?\xa0
\xa0\u201cJournalism under digital siege. Surveillance, harassment, particularly against women journalists,\u201d says Guilherme Canela, Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists, UNESCO.\xa0
And which journalists are most affected ?\xa0
\u201cMedia has been undermined within so-called liberal democracies. Let\u2019s not forget that almost as many journalists have been killed in Mexico this year as in Ukraine,\u201d says Nick Cumming-Bruce, New York Times contributor based in Geneva.\xa0
How can journalists protect their profession, and themselves?
Join host Imogen Foulkes on Inside Geneva.\xa0
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