W.hen Caroline Muscat is asked whether she is actually an activist or a journalist, she always answers the same: “We have no choice.” She knows, she says, that it is not normal how she and the staff of her Maltese news portal The Shift work. But there is no other way to do a decent job as a journalist in Malta.
On this Wednesday afternoon, Caroline Muscat is visiting Reporters Without Borders (ROG) in Berlin, where she is currently on an ROG scholarship. About a dozen people are online for the conversation between her and Rebecca Vincent, ROG Director for International Campaigns. Muscat’s words, however, are intended for anyone who still believes that basic press freedoms are a matter of course in every country in the European Union. Malta ranks 158 out of 180 states on the press freedom ranking published by ROG, and has slipped 36 places since 2013.
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