PM to meet with IĠM after it threatens to pull out of media reform

Prime Minister Robert Abela will be meeting the Institute of Maltese Journalists (IĠM) after its members called for legislation on media protection to be open for consultation.

Abela will meet with IĠM president Matthew Xuereb and general secretary Kurt Sansone on Thursday.

The meeting, announced by Xuereb on Wednesday, comes after the IĠM expressed disappointment that its most salient recommendations for the reform had been ignored or seriously watered down in the bills presented by the government. 

Xuereb was making introductory remarks during a consultation meeting with Nationalist Party leader Bernard Grech and other PN MPs.

The meeting is part of the party's public consultation on the media reform process. 

IĠM members of met with Nationalist Party leader Bernard Grech and other MPs to discuss the proposed media reform. Photo: Giulia Magri

“The Prime Minister wrote to us this afternoon inviting us for a meeting to discuss our requests at Castille tomorrow," Xuereb said.

"From the very beginning, our position has been that we can come up with better laws for the protection of journalists through proper consultation."

In a letter to Abela on Monday, the IĠM warned it will...