1:1 with Tom Gibson

📌Episode Highlights
⏲️[00:00] Intro
⏲️[01:17] Q1 - What does (protecting) media freedom mean to you?
⏲️[05:01] Q2 - What should the EU legislators do or do better to protect media freedom?
⏲️[12:29] Q3 - What are the pitfalls that EU legislators should avoid when trying to protect the media and its freedom?
⏲️[18:43] You have 2 minutes to deliver a message to the powers that be in the EU: make your case.
⏲️[22:55] Outro

📌About Our Guest
🎙️ Tom Gibson | Committee to Protect Journalists
🐦 https://twitter.com/at_tgibson
🌐 https://www.ecpmf.eu/joint-statement-...
🌐 https://cpj.org/

Tom Gibson joined the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) in January 2017 and is CPJ’s lead advocate in Brussels covering the institutions of the European Union. Between 2014 and 2016, Gibson managed Protection International's Burundi and Congo desks, advocating for stronger state accountability for the protection of human rights defenders and journalists as well as developing emergency responses and protection measures.  Previously, he worked in Amnesty International's Africa program from 2005 to 2014, based in London and Nairobi, during which he mainly researched human rights violations in the Great Lakes region of Africa.