{"id":23586,"date":"2022-10-19T14:09:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T12:09:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/2022\/10\/19\/anti-slapp-directive-the-eu-against-strategic-intimidation-of-journalists\/"},"modified":"2023-12-21T13:08:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T12:08:03","slug":"anti-slapp-directive-the-eu-against-strategic-intimidation-of-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/anti-slapp-directive-the-eu-against-strategic-intimidation-of-journalists\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-SLAPP Directive &#8211; The EU against strategic intimidation of journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, working conditions for journalists have deteriorated in many places around the world. There are obvious examples of this: China or Russia, where neutral, state-free reporting is practically impossible and the state systematically persecutes critical journalists. But also in the EU, the work of journalists is exposed to increasing risks.<\/p>\n<p>One factor that considerably hinders them in their work are so-called SLAPP proceedings: Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation. In German, this could be translated as &#8220;Strategic Lawsuits Against Intimidation&#8221;. These are court cases that are brought with the sole aim of preventing unpopular reporting, without there being a legally tenable basis for the respective lawsuit or injunction application.<\/p>\n<p>The EU Commission has now presented a draft &#8220;Anti-SLAPP Directive&#8221;. It wants to prevent such intimidation suits. In this episode, research assistants Justin Rennert and Johanna Voget present the draft directive and give an outlook on the further legislative process.<\/p>\n<p>Translated with www.DeepL.com\/Translator (free version)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/fsr-dfn\/embed\/episodes\/Anti-SLAPP-Richtlinie---Die-EU-gegen-strategische-Einschchterung-von-Journalisten-e1nskh3\/a-a8hhh7b\" width=\"100%\" height=\"102px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/fsr-dfn\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In recent years, working conditions for journalists have deteriorated in many places around the world. There are obvious examples of this: China or Russia, where neutral, state-free reporting is practically impossible and the state systematically persecutes critical journalists. But also in the EU, the work of journalists is exposed to increasing risks. One factor that [&#8230;]\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":26314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1058,1055],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast-other","category-podcasts-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23586"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26814,"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23586\/revisions\/26814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itm.nrw\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}