{"id":402,"date":"2022-06-27T17:37:51","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T16:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/?post_type=ctzn_campaign&#038;p=402"},"modified":"2022-09-20T15:31:27","modified_gmt":"2022-09-20T14:31:27","slug":"press-freedom","status":"publish","type":"ctzn_campaign","link":"https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/campaign\/press-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<section id=\"feed-content-block_62b9dccdf3abc\" class=\"featured-link-blocks primary-block recent-posts   content-loop\">\n\t\t\n\t<div class='row'>\n\t<div class='col-md-12 col-lg-12 col-xl-10'>\n\t\t \t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\t<\/section>\n\n\n\t<section id=\"feed-content-block_62cc40717a20d\" class=\"featured-link-blocks in-brief-block recent-posts   content-loop\">\n\t\t\n\t<div class='row'>\n\t<div class='col-md-12 col-lg-12 col-xl-10'>\n\t\t <div class='in-brief latest in-focus'><h2>In brief<\/h2><\/div><div class='row yellow-strip'><div class='col-sm-12 col-lg-12'><div class='linkblock film'><a href='https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/2022\/05\/its-designed-to-ruin-you-matthew-caruana-galizia-on-londons-libel-industry\/' class='img-container' style='background-image: url(https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/MatthewCaruanaGalizia-scaled.jpg)'><\/a><div class='text-container apply-overlap'><div class='post-type  campaign'><p class='post-type-text'> campaign<\/p><\/div><div class='h2-sf-container'><h2><a href='https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/2022\/05\/its-designed-to-ruin-you-matthew-caruana-galizia-on-londons-libel-industry\/'>&#8216;It&#8217;s designed to ruin you&#8217;: Matthew Caruana Galizia on London&#8217;s libel industry<\/a><\/h2><p>On World Press Freedom Day, a powerful reminder from Matthew Caruana Galizia, son of murdered Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia, of the role played by British libel law firms in stifling public interest journalism both in the UK and abroad<\/p><a href='https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/2022\/05\/its-designed-to-ruin-you-matthew-caruana-galizia-on-londons-libel-industry\/' class='arrow-link'><img src='https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/wp-content\/themes\/citizens2022\/assets\/images\/icons\/ArrowRight.svg' class='arrow' width='50' \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='col-sm-12 col-lg-12'><div class='linkblock film'><a href='https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/2022\/04\/londons-law-firms-are-one-stop-shops-for-oligarchs\/' class='img-container' style='background-image: url(https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Screenshot-2022-07-06-at-11.24.31.png)'><\/a><div class='text-container apply-overlap'><div class='post-type  campaign'><p class='post-type-text'> campaign<\/p><\/div><div class='h2-sf-container'><h2><a href='https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/2022\/04\/londons-law-firms-are-one-stop-shops-for-oligarchs\/'>London&#8217;s law firms are &#8216;one-stop shops for oligarchs&#8217;<\/a><\/h2><p>London is a hotspot for legal threats against journalists according to a new report from the Foreign Policy Centre. We spoke to the FPC&#8217;s Susan Coughtrie and journalists Paul Caruana Galizia and Clare Rewcastle Brown about the corrosive impact that SLAPPs (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) are having on public interest reporting<\/p><a href='https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/2022\/04\/londons-law-firms-are-one-stop-shops-for-oligarchs\/' class='arrow-link'><img src='https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/wp-content\/themes\/citizens2022\/assets\/images\/icons\/ArrowRight.svg' class='arrow' width='50' \/><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class='col-sm-12 col-lg-12'><div class='linkblock'><a href='https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/2022\/01\/public-interest-journalism-on-trial-in-libel-capital-of-the-world\/' class='img-container' style='background-image: url(https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Campaign_Press_Feature_SLAPP_image-e1657554163828.jpg)'><\/a><div class='text-container apply-overlap'><div class='post-type  campaign'><p class='post-type-text'> campaign<\/p><\/div><div class='h2-sf-container'><h2><a href='https:\/\/the-citizens.com\/2022\/01\/public-interest-journalism-on-trial-in-libel-capital-of-the-world\/'>Public interest journalism on trial in &#8216;libel capital of the world&#8217;<\/a><\/h2><p>There&#8217;s more at stake than who picks up the legal bill in the trial of Banks vs. Cadwalladr. 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