🛑 “Old Habit, New Fronts: Tackling Hate Speech Against Journalists” 📍 Strasbourg, CDMSI/No Hate Speech Week 2025 At the heart of this year’s #NoHateSpeech Week, the Council of Europe held a pivotal seminar addressing hate speech targeting journalists and other media actors — a growing threat that undermines democracy and media freedom across Europe. Hosted within the framework of the Steering Committee on Media and Information Society (CDMSI) Plenary and as part of the Council of Europe’s #journalistsmatter Campaign, the event brought together member States’ representatives, journalists, experts, academics, and national focal points. 🗣️ Jean-Paul Marthoz, Dr. Sejal Parmar, Espen Brynsrud, Marija Babic and Camille Regache exchanged with participants to assess the impact of hate speech against journalists and other media actors, highlighted legal and non-leagl measures of the CM/Rec (2022) 16 on Combating Hate Speech, shared national and regional responses, reflected on gender and LGBTI dimensions and charted a path toward greater protection and accountability. 🔍 This year’s seminar flipped the lens: not only exploring how media report on hate speech, but also how they endure it. It affirmed the Campaign’s call: Hate speech against journalists is an attack on democracy itself. Let’s act together — across sectors and borders — to protect those who hold power to account. #journalistsmatter #MediaFreedom #NoHateSpeech #HumanRights #SafetyOfJournalists #CouncilOfEurope #FreedomOfExpression #CDMSI #Strasbourg #StopHate
