Blog: Restricting free speech to combat online harassment is not worth the risk
(World News Austria)

IPI is launching a set of video tutorials as part of its Ontheline programme to combat online attacks on journalists. The tutorials, covering the emotional impact of harassment as well as legal measures, can be found on IPI`s Newsrooms Ontheline hub along with other resources for newsrooms to defend their journalists. The growing phenomenon of online attacks against journalists - which include threats, insults and smear campaigns as a means of silencing them and challenging their credibility in the public arena - has escalated the perceived tension between the protection of media freedom as a precondition for independent journalism and calls for strong tools to limit the dissemination of...