Lea este artículo en español Since Spain’s Public Security Law, known as the “gag law”, took effect on June 30 last year, the number of court cases challenging the measure’s constitutionality or asserting that certain provisions violate fundamental human rights has proliferated. But despite disapproval of the law by a majority of the Spanish public […]

Read this feature in English Desde que la Ley de Seguridad Ciudadana, conocida como la “Ley Mordaza”, entrara en vigor el pasado 30 de junio, han proliferado las organizaciones que han denunciado ante distintos estamentos judiciales su inconstitucionalidad, para unos, o la vulneración de derechos humanos fundamentales en algunos de sus artículos, para otros. A […]

Nearly two years have passed since Jordanian authorities blocked over 200 websites for failing to obtain a license in accordance with a then-recent amendment to the country’s Press and Publications Law. The amendment requires online news sites to be licensed to operate as such and to have an editor affiliated with the Jordan Press Association, […]

Media entrepreneurs, researchers, funders and policymakers came together last week at the Journalism Entrepreneurship Summit at the Google Campus in London. The Feb. 27 event was organised by the MADE project creator and UCLan professor François Nel, with the support of Talk About Local and the International Press Institute (IPI). The one-day, digital media ride […]