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The Public Prosecution Service (OM) has adjusted its rules for spying on journalists’ conversations with suspects. From May 1, the authorities can only listen in on a conversation between a journalist and a suspect if an examining magistrate approves it beforehand, NOS reports.
Dutch news outlet De Correspondent is suing the Public Prosecution Service (OM) for allegedly eavesdropping on a conversation between three of its journalists and individuals involved in a controversial 100 million euro deal involving the sale of face masks to the Dutch government during the coronavirus pandemic.
They said the Covid-19 pandemic had played a “significant role” in the closure because their set-up was designed to avoid the daily news cycle and focus on longer-term structural developments around the world. Ten staff members will lose their jobs when the website closes at the end of the year. The site had correspondents based in the UK, US, Nigeria, India, Italy and Argentina. The English-language The Correspondent was launched by the team behind the Dutch De Correspondent, which began in 2013 and is set to continue. Any staff that worked part-time between the two sites will keep their...
March 27, 2019De Correspondent had originally promised that The Correspondent would be headquartered in New York City. It tapped “ambassadors” like Nate Silver, David Simon, and Baratunde Thurston to help spread the word about the crowdfunding campaign, and Jay Rosen appeared on The Daily Show to talk up the U.S. product. But after the money was raised, the news gradually trickled out that De Correspondent’s founders weren’t planning to launch a site in the United States at all. “I felt like it was a betrayal, and we had raised funds on false pretense,” The Correspondent’s first...