What We do
Our core mission is to help journalists and media outlets defend legal cases against them. We do this by making sure that journalists and media outlets have the best available legal representation.
Where necessary, we can help pay legal fees, and we can also provide legal back-up to the lawyer(s) defending a case and link them with our global network of specialist media lawyers. Journalists or media outlets in need of legal support can contact us directly for an emergency grant or other form of assistance.
As well as providing emergency grants, we provide grants to organisations that provide legal defence services to journalists. For example, we provide grants to the Mass Media Defence Center in Russia, and the legal aid unit of the Human Rights Network for Journalists in Uganda.
We also support the development of media law expertise and encourage lawyers to take up media cases. We do this by encouraging the formation of networks such as the Southeast Asian media defence lawyers network, as well as by supporting specialist media law seminars and education programmes for lawyers.
For examples of our work, please click on ‘our work’, above.
To seek assistance or apply for a grant, please click “get help with a case”, in the right-hand side column.
