The Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation has issued a strong warning that Malta’s long-promised media reform process must produce real, structural change rather than serve as a symbolic exercise. The Foundation stressed that genuine reform is necessary to safeguard journalists, protect public access to information, and prevent the kind of institutional failure that led to the 2017 assassination of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia....
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