The Press Freedom Files: Will spying on journalists be the ‘new normal’?

What the journalistic community has long suspected – that
surveillance of reportersis much more widespread than could be
proven – became reality when Forbidden Stories and 16 other
international news organisations released The Pegasus Project.
 Based on leaked information, the story revealed that over
180 journalists were listed as suspected targets of phone hacking
using Pegasus, a spyware for governments whose claimed purpose is
to monitor those suspected of serious crime and terrorist
activity.


In our latest podcast episode, IPI Head of Digital Media and
Innovation Javier Luque speaks with Marton Gergely,
editor-in-chief of the independent weekly HVG in Hungary, and
Siddharth Varadarajan, editor-in-chief of India’s The Wire, on
the impact of these revelations on the journalistic community.