A story of the collapse of press freedom in Greece
Thirty-eight places worse than in 2021 and last in the ranking of EU countries, press freedom in Greece is undoubtedly in free fall. Greek journalists Konstantinos Poulis and Jenny Tsiropoulou take us inside newsrooms to find out what the 108th place means in practice and to ask who benefits from journalism that is feared and silenced.
Thirty-eight places worse than in 2021 and last in the ranking of EU countries, press freedom in Greece is undoubtedly in free fall. According to the annual report of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), in a total of 180 countries, the country referred to internationally as the matrix of democracy has plummeted in just one year from 70th to 108th place in 2022.
In the following six episodes of this podcast, Greek journalists Konstantinos Poulis and Jenny Tsiropoulou take us inside newsrooms to see the working conditions in the media, investigate the unsolved murder of a journalist at the door of his house, talk to journalists-victims of SLAPPS (strategic lawsuits against public participation) and journalists who are victims of phone tapping, and they will talk to us about a completely opaque process of public funding to find out what the 108th place means in practice and to ask who benefits from journalism that is feared and silenced.
The present government has systematically failed to respond to requests from journalists from unfriendly media. In such cases, we report on it in our editorials.
#108 is a co-production between the Greek independent media The Press Project and the podcast production agency Bulle Media.