(Editor&Publisher) The U.S. Senate unanimously passed a bill on July 19 to protect American authors, journalists and publishers from foreign libel judgments that would not withstand constitutional protection of speech in the United States.
The voice vote sent the bill to the House for final action, the Associated Press reported.
The International Federation of Journalists is the global voice of journalists. It was formed in 1926 and today is the world’s largest organisation of journalists, working across all sectors and representing more than 600,000 news staff in unions and associations of journalists from 120 countries.
The Ethical Journalism Initiative is a global campaign of programmes and activities to support and strengthen quality in media. It was adopted by the World Congress of the IFJ in Moscow in 2007 and was formally launched in 2008.