Article in Columbia Journalism Review by Emily Bell and Heather Chaplin, 9/10/26
Headline: “The Fight to Save Journalism in Georgia”
Subhead: “How independent media organizations are standing together against an authoritarian government.”
“In Georgia, since a new party took power in 2024, founded by a billionaire oligarch with links to Russia, journalists are facing unprecedented attacks. All sorts of repression have become more common: physical assaults, arrests, arbitrary fines, suspensions of accreditation, and more. But perhaps the most devastating blow was less direct. After the government clamped down on all foreign funding and grants to Georgian organizations, citing them as examples of malign foreign interference, many independent media outlets lost as much as 90 percent of their budgets. . .”
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