Jean-Paul Marthoz is a foreign affairs columnist at the Brussels daily Le Soir and author of some 20 books, in particular The Media and Terrorism (UNESCO, 2017). He has been European Press Director at Human Rights Watch and EU correspondent of the Committee to Protect Journalists. He has carried out missions on press freedom in Russia, Turkey, Hungary, Algeria, and taught international journalism at the UCLouvain, Belgium. He sits on the Editorial Board of Index on Censorship magazine, the Advisory Board of the Ethical Journalism Network and is the editorial coordinator of the annual report of the COE’s Journalist Safety Platform.