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The Compass: The Future of Free Speech: Journalists: Free speech v personal safety

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Charlie Hebdo satirical magazine

08/04/2020 GMT

Journalists: Free speech v personal safety

The Future of Free Speech

BBC World Service - The Compass, The Future of Free Speech, Journalists: Free speech v personal safety

Robin Lustig explores journalists' freedom to report against threats to their own safety

Robin talks to fellow journalists around the world who have to walk the fine line between an espousal of free speech rights and their own safety.  Is there reason to be optimistic about the future? He travels to Paris to the former office of Charlie Hebdo, the French satirical magazine which saw many of its cartoonists and journalist murdered by jihadist gunmen. He meets the editor of the magazine which is currently forced to operate from a secret location for security reasons. On the streets of Hong Kong he joins journalists working for small online publications, reporting from the front line of the clashes between protesters and police in an environment where the larger press organisations are increasingly believed to be under the influence of Beijing.

(Photo: Man sits in a cafe reading Charlie Hebdo, a satirical French magazine. Credit: Reuters)

The Compass: The Future of Free Speech

Robin Lustig maps the shifting frontlines in the global battle over free speech.

Is the right to speak freely protected in the world today? And is it right that it should be protected? Those were questions raised when the United States of America’s Constitution received its famous first amendment in 1789. The Amendment stated that Congress should make no law that controlled freedom of speech or of the press. Robin Lustig travels the globe today to explore those same questions.  In each episode he considers one of the gatekeepers of Free speech - The Courts, Journalism, Religion, Universities and the Tech companies.

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