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Journalism as the Fourth Emergency Service: Trauma and Resilience

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2024), xviii, 257 pp.
"Journalists have often been considered the "fourth emergency service". They are first on the scene, alongside paramedics, fi re and police, running towards danger rather than away, and providing independent, veritable and crucial information in the public interest. And yet, unlike frontline workers ... more

CASE handbook: How to prevent SLAPPs or get help if it's too late

Coalition Against SLAPPs in Europe (CASE) (2024), 31 pp.

SLAPPs: A Threat to Democracy Continues to Grow. A 2023 Report Update

Coalition Against SLAPPs in Europe (CASE);Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation, 2nd ed. (2023), 23 pp.

How Are Courts Responding to SLAPPs? Analysis of Selected Court Decisions from Across the Globe

Columbia University Global Freedom of Expression (2023), 26 pp.
"The gradual trend toward the decriminalization of defamation is slowing down, with 160 states still not having decriminalized defamation. The use of criminal defamation offences to restrict online expression has increased worldwide. Several States have harshened or reintroduced provisions on libel, ... more

SLAPPs against journalists across Europe

Article 19;Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) (2022), 86 pp.
"This report provides a Europe-wide overview of lawsuits that are taken to stifle scrutiny and public debate on issues such as corruption, mismanagement of public resources, and human rights violations. Such lawsuits, known as strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs) are taken by pow ... more

Fighting SLAPPs: What Can Media, Lawyers, and Funders Do?

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2022), 16 pp.
"Strategic lawsuits against public participation, or SLAPPs, are lawsuits taken against media organizations or activists with the sole purpose of silencing them. They typically involve a huge disparity in resources and the claimant’s tactic is to use the lawsuit, or threat of a lawsuit, to divert ... more

Protecting Public Watchdogs Across the EU: A Proposal for an EU Anti-SLAPP Law

Article 19;Civil Liberties Union for Europe;Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ);et al. (2020), 48 pp.
"Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs) are a form of legal harassment. Pursued by law firms on behalf of powerful individuals and organisations who seek to avoid public scrutiny, their aim is to drain the target’s financial and psychological resources and chill critical voices t ... more

Libel Tourism: Silencing the Press Through Transnational Legal Threats

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2010), 41 pp.
"This report by Drew Sullivan, a journalist, editor, and media development specialist, explains how lawsuits can force media organizations to censor themselves or limit the distribution of their news content, restricting freedom of expression and thus threatening one of the foundations of democracy. ... more