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Since October 2023, HonestReporting Canada has relentlessly targeted the media, posting about twice a day — nearly 700 alerts total.
Canada Press Freedom Project:
HonestReporting Canada has targeted at least 384 individual media workers with almost 700 publications since Oct. 2023. CPFP is tracking these incidents as chilling statements in our database of press freedom infringements:
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CPFP is continuing to speak with media workers who have been targeted by HonestReporting Canada.
Want to talk? Get in touch here: canadapressfreedom.ca/contac…
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Journalists have described the aftermath of being targeted by HRC (reviewofjournalism.ca/the-po…) and its chilling effects: (breachmedia.ca/cbc-whitewash…).
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Journalists have received hundreds of messages after being named in these campaigns, including one student journalist who received 1,500 emails in a single day.
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Journalists targeted by these campaigns tell CPFP that HRC is weaponizing antisemitism to shut down reporting critical of Israel, and in the process provoking torrents of online harassment.
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The organization says it aims to “control the narrative” by monitoring media and mobilizing complaints about reporting it sees as anti-Israel.
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This number only includes posts which name individual media workers or newsrooms and which also include a means to contact them.
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Media workers and newsrooms reporting on Israel and Palestine are being flooded with messages after being named in HonestReporting Canada pressure campaigns.
Since Oct. 2023, HRC has relentlessly targeted the media, posting about twice a day — nearly 700 alerts total.
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Canada Press Freedom Project:
HonestReporting Canada has targeted at least 384 individual media workers with almost 700 publications since Oct. 2023. CPFP is tracking these incidents as chilling statements in our database of press freedom infringements:
canadapressfreedom.ca/catego…
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CBC will dedicate the new Google funding to the hiring of local journalists in underserved communities, with a focus on Western Canada.
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The Canada Press Freedom Project monitors threats to press freedom.
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"TVO members chose to enforce their collective agreement recently and the employer proceeded to lay off 16 workers."
@cwacanada1 on this week's layoffs in the online news division of TVO:
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“I silently agreed not to talk about Palestine in exchange for a viable career in journalism.
"No longer.”
@Pacinthe on moving past the Palestine Exception:
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A veteran journalist sounds the alarm on how the right is waging a war on words
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After the incident, Nagar said: “The attack I endured was not simply an act of physical violence; it was a brazen attempt to intimidate, to silence and to prevent a free press from doing its job. I want to make one thing abundantly clear: I will not be silenced.”
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A man accused of assaulting @RedFMCalgary radio host Rishi Nagar in Calgary in September will appear in court next week.
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“The internet is becoming the space where these ideas are being incubated and generated and it is jumping off the internet into the real world. So I think we do need to take it seriously.” j-source.ca/how-pressprogres…
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