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Journalist Impact Survey 2023
We’re pleased to publish key insights from our 7th Journalist Impact Survey. The report shares findings and observations on the effectiveness and long-term impact of our legal and financial help, as well as the threats and trends affecting the journalists we support around the world. Explore Report “I dread thinking about it. I did not…
15 Years of Media Defence: A Visual Timeline
For 15 years, Media Defence have provided crucial legal support to journalists, citizen journalists, cartoonists, and independent media worldwide. As the sole organisation dedicated solely to this cause, we've made a significant impact: spanning 117 countries, we've supported over 1,300 press freedom cases, and trained 270 lawyers to defend journalists globally. Explore our Visual Timeline…
Learning Report 2022
Read our Learning Report 2022 Media Defence values the importance of learning and improvement. We undertake a variety of internal and external evaluations each year in order to understand the effectiveness and relevance of our programmes, ensuring that we learn from the experiences of the lawyers and journalists involved. We also do this to explore…
Lawyer Impact Survey 2022
About the survey Read our Lawyer Impact Survey 2022 In 2022, we carried out our third Lawyer Impact Survey to assess the impact of our support to lawyers. We support lawyers with both our emergency defence and our strategic litigation programmes. Through these programmes, we offer pro bono legal support, as well as financial support…
A Year in Review: Our 2022 Annual Report
The year 2022 has presented us with a worrying decline in press freedom. In response to their work, journalists around the world have faced legal harassment, intimidation, and other forms of persecution by those seeking to silence them. Over the last couple of years, journalists have been targeted in ways ranging from criminal charges to…
Media Defence has been working to support journalists facing legal threats since 2008. We value the importance of learning and improvement, and we dedicate time and resources to monitoring and evaluating our projects and programmes in order to learn, improve and grow. We strive to ensure our evaluations are robust, efficient, useful, accurate and innovative.
Since 2008
We have provided legal help to hundreds of journalists and media outlets around the world.
We have provided training for over 270+ lawyers globally
Since 2015 we have provided training for over 270+ lawyers, across 40 countries and in 4 languages.
73% case success rate
To date, we have a 73% case success rate, and since we began conducting our Journalist Impact Survey, our support has enabled 95% of journalist respondents to continue their public interest reporting.
2000+ cases in 120 countries
Since 2008, we have supported over 2000 cases in 120 countries.
73% case success rate
To date, we have a 73% case success rate, and since we began conducting our Journalist Impact Survey, our support has enabled 95% of journalist respondents to continue their public interest reporting.
2000+ cases in 120 countries
Since 2008, we have supported over 2000 cases in 120 countries.
2000+ cases in 120 countries
Since 2008, we have supported over 2000 cases in 120 countries.
98% of the journalists we help would recommend our support.
To date, our legal support has helped journalists avoid over 350 years of detention and nearly £800 million in damages.
95% of the journalists we help continued to report.
