Who I am I’m a professional journalist and I’m 54 years old. I work for one of Italy’s biggest newspaper “Corriere della Sera”, where in the last ten years I’m an investigative data journalist. I have been a journalist since 1991. My first experiences were in crime and court reporting for local and national newspapers. As a correspondent, I covered the wars in Kosovo, Iraq, and Afghanistan. From 2000 to 2009, I followed events in the Middle East. From 2009 to 2014, I covered Italian and European issues. From 2003 to 2017, I was vice president of the Italian section of Reporters…

Who I am My name is Allan Boye Thulstrup, and I have been part of the EFJ Steering Committee since 2022. After four years as vice president of the Danish Union of Journalists I was recently elected as president of the Union, which is the only union for media workers in Denmark. Before holding elected office, I, among other things, worked as a journalist covering local and national politics. Why I am standing For the past three years in the SC we have worked on several important issues, and I consider the most important result to be our work on…

Who I am I am a journalist and unionist half and a half, I was born in Palencia (Spain) in 1975. I lived and studied there until 1995 when I moved to Salamanca to study journalism in a Pontificia University in Salamanca (Spain). After that I returned to Palencia to start to work in different positions in Diario Palentino, then move to Toledo, to work on La Tribuna; came back to Castilla y León to work in ICAL regional news agency, where my journalist work is actually. In 2007 I moved to Madrid to work in CCOO to start to…

Today to mark the fourth anniversary of the killing of Greek crime reporter Giorgos Karaivaz in April 2021. The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) joins the undersigned international media freedom and journalist organisations in renewing the call for justice and for ending the ongoing impunity, which continues to cast a dark shadow over the Greek media and press freedom landscape. Karaivaz, a veteran reporter specialised in police and crime issues, was gunned down outside his home in Athens by two men on a moped on 9 April 2021, in what is widely suspected to have been a professional contract killing…

In the face of attacks on European civil society organisations by certain Members of the European Parliament, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) joins Civil Society Europe and more than 570 other organisations from 40 countries, in denouncing these misleading narratives and calling to defend the vital role of civil society in European decision-making processes. Spearheaded by some MEPs from the European People’s Party (EPP) and by far-right groups, this attack resorts to misleading arguments to fabricate a scandal. This portrayal has been amplified through the media, with notable exceptions of articles that attempted to clarify this misleading narrative. European…

The preliminary investigation into alleged defamation targeting Finnish journalist Ida Erämaa has been closed after the Chief Prosecutor of Southern Finland found that the journalist was partly responsible for the insults and threats she received. The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) joins its affiliate, the Finnish Union of Journalists (UJF), in criticising the decision and the justifications put forward. The UJF filed a complaint with the Office of the Prosecutor General. In 2023, Ida Erämaa’s column about the right-wing Finns Party (PS) in the tabloid newspaper Iltalehti led to a large-scale online harassment campaign by PS supporters and MPs, whose…