Refusing to pay for content that users post on its site in Australia, Facebook said it could bar the practice as media companies demanded to be compensated for the content.

An Australian parliamentary committee set up to inquire the legitimacy of recent police raids on a journalist has said reporters should not have immunity from secrecy offenses.

With COVID-19's second wave engulfing a number of European Union the bloc has responded with a record 1.8 trillion euros ($2.13 billion) in aid, but warned against fraud and corruption.

As WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange London continues to wait in jail for a COVID-19 delayed trial that could see him extradited to the United States to face espionage charges, his partner, Stella Moris, launched a CrowdJustice campaign to help fund his defense.

Roberto Macías, the Spanish whistleblower who revealed one of the biggest labor corruption scandals in Spanish history and whose subsequent two-year prison sentence is on hold while he appeals his conviction, has invoked a provision in the European Union's new Whistleblower Directive. The new law doesn't come into effect until the end of 2021.

After an Australian court ruled a journalist can't protect a source in a murder and terrorism case, a government plan to bar the media from reporting corruption allegations during election campaigns has been pulled back abruptly.

In another blow to press freedom in Australia, a Queensland court ruled that an unidentified TV journalist can't protect a source who gave information in a murder case and terrorism raids.

As countries across the EU’s 27 member states begin to develop new whistleblower protection laws, Blueprint is pleased to publish our new online tool for evaluating proposed legislation against the Directive's requirements.

NSA whistleblower Reality Winner, convicted in 2018 of leaking a top-secret report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, tested positive for COVID-19 in the Texas Federal prison where she's serving a five-year term.

Trailing only Communist China for the ignominious world record of jailing journalists, Turkey is again stepping up its siege on the media.

EU member states are beginning the process of transposing the requirements of the EU Whistleblower Directive into national law.

Organisations in defence of whistleblowers request a participative, open and transparent process to transpose the European Directive 2019/1937 into Spanish law