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For now, here's your media news digest!
Safety of Journalists: Call For Evidence
The Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport has opened a call out for journalists to submit evidence about ‘threats and abuse’ they have faced.
“This call for evidence is intended to develop an evidence base to understand the nature and volume of threats and abuse against journalists who are operating in the UK.
Responses will be used to better understand the nature and scale of the problem which the government, alongside the National Committee, is seeking to solve.”
The online form is open until July 14th.
The BBC and Beyond campaign continues!
A reminder that the dates for the next three events:
- Tuesday June 22nd, 6pm - The nation's quarrel with itself: public media and constitutional crisis in Northern Ireland (with Ulster University)
- Monday, June 28th, 6pm - Scottish media, for everyone? (with Pass the Mic)
- Thursday, July 1st, 11am - Public media in Wales (with the Institute for Welsh Affairs - sign up link to come!)
The first two events will be streamed on the MRC Twitter and Facebook and YouTube, while the Wales-focused event will be run as a Zoom seminar. All events are free and include a Q