Finnish journalist Linda Pelkonen can still remember the feeling of fear. “I thought these people were out of their minds and that they would come and find me,” she said, recounting a wave of online harassment against her in 2015 in a recent interview with the International Press Institute (IPI). So Pelkonen could empathise strongly […]

The Thai military government’s continued enforcement of strict media laws and restrictions to target critics and independent reporting, and legislative efforts to take greater control over media, are leaving journalists in Thailand with an increasingly narrow space for free expression. Journalists facing arrest and prosecution under the country’s lese-majeste, computer crimes and sedition laws already […]

Read this article in English. Politik, Migration und Islam sind Themen, die in Österreich am ehesten Online-Beschimpfungen von JournalistInnen nach sich ziehen. Das zeigt eine heute veröffentlichte Studie des International Press Institute (IPI). Die Studie untersuchte vier Monate lang Online-Attacken auf JournalistInnen in Österreich. Der Untersuchungszeitraum zwischen September und Dezember 2016 fiel mit dem zweiten […]

Lesen Sie diesen Artikel auf Deutsch. News content related to politics, immigration and Islam is most likely to trigger online harassment against journalists in Austria, according to a new study released today by the International Press Institute (IPI). The study examined attacks against journalists in Austria over a four-month period from September to December 2016, […]