Ask Dunja Mijatović if conditions for journalists have improved in the six years she’s been the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s Representative on Freedom of the Media, and there’s a deep, exasperated sigh. Then a long pause.
“We live in a more dangerous time for journalists,” Mijatović told POLITICO.
Autocrats in countries like Russia, Turkey and Azerbaijan are bullying independent critics into silence, while established democracies such as the U.K. are introducing sweeping new laws to track terrorists that could be used against media organizations.
Mijatović, a 51-year-old Bosnian, is one of the rare official voices in the European policy sphere …read more
Source: POLITICO – Europe Edition
