135 journalists attacked in 2024 – CJID
The Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) has revealed that 135 journalists suffered physical attacks while carrying out their work in 2024. CJID made the revelation while presenting updates of its Press Attack Tracker platform to journalists and civil society on Monday in Abuja. The event is tagged, “Newsrooms Engagement on Navigating Legal Challenges, […]
The Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) has revealed that 135 journalists suffered physical attacks while carrying out their work in 2024.
CJID made the revelation while presenting updates of its Press Attack Tracker platform to journalists and civil society on Monday in Abuja.
The event is tagged, “Newsrooms Engagement on Navigating Legal Challenges, Laws that Criminalise Journalism and Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs).”
Presenting the report, the Project Associate, Media Freedom Project, CJID, Adebayo Aare, said the essence of the tracker is for reporting press freedom violations to support advocacy for policy change and accountability.
During the discussion by heads of media organisations moderated by the Deputy Director of Journalism Program, Busola Ajibola, the panelists shared their experiences on managing SLAPP and other forms of repression.
The President of the International Press Institute (IPI), Musikilu Mojeed and the Acting Editor-in-Chief of Daily Trust, Hamza Idris, highlighted the impact of SLAPP on personal censorship, emotional and financial pressure on media practitioners.
They also identified lack of capacity, collaboration and ethical conduct as some of the inhibiting factors for public interest reporting.