In the EJN President's Notebook, Aidan White writes that leading politicians in Britain are calling for a windfall tax levy on tech giants like Facebook, Google and Amazon in order to help fund more public interest journalism. In doing so some observers believe that they may have opened the door to ways of solving a crisis not just for cash-strapped news media, but perhaps also for democracy itself.

Earlier this month, Dr. Zahera Harb, a board member of the Ethical Journalism Network and Senior Lecturer in International Journalism at City, University of London, spoke at the Public Media Alliance's annual conference in Jamaica. 

• Shahidul Alam – A courageous journalists who exemplifies why we must defend press freedom: Human rights campaigner Lyndall Stein calls for the release of journalist and photographer, Shahidul Alam, who has been held by Bangladeshi authorities since 5 August after he gave an interview to Al Jazeera about recent street protests. Stein, who has known Alam since the early 90’s, describes him as “a powerful courageous figure who exemplifies why we must defend freedom of the press.”
• Migration reporting must provide solutions: Powerful, emotional testimony is not enough: Focus on the positive while not ignoring the negative when reporting on migration, is a key message from Aidan White, the President of the EJN, who has been judging entries to this years EU-funded Migration Media Awards. 
• Cyprus: Journalism in the Crosshairs of Silly Season: In Cyprus, with the silly season in full swing, it’s journalism itself which is making headlines. EJN President, Aidan White, writes that a faux-controversy has been generated over an effort by journalists to promote a discussion within newsrooms on both sides of the island about the words and phrases they use in their reporting.