Call for evidence outcome

Safety of journalists: call for evidence

From:: Department for Culture, Media and Sport, Home Office and Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
Published: 2 June 2021
Last updated: 3 November 2021 — See all updates

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This Call for Evidence received 360 responses from journalists and provided insight into key issues concerning journalist safety in the UK. The government would like to thank the respondents who shared views.

The findings of this Call for Evidence presented below should be treated as indicative given the self-selected nature of participation in the survey questionnaire provided, and the relatively small sample size achieved. However, the survey was broadly representative of the journalist workforce in terms of characteristics such as gender, location and employment status (employed vs self-employed or freelance). There was an over representation of ethnic minority responses relative to the journalist workforce as a whole.

For this reason, we have not provided a full quantitative breakdown of responses and specific demographic analyses, instead focusing on key themes from the evidence provided and on areas that journalists expanded on within their responses.

Original call for evidence

Call for evidence description

This call for evidence is intended to develop an evidence base to understand the nature and volume of threats and abuse against journalists who are operating in the UK.

Responses will be used to better understand the nature and scale of the problem which the government, alongside the National Committee, is seeking to solve.

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