Ilze Jaunalksne-Rēdere, (born November 19, 1976, in Jūrmala) is a Latvian journalist and an author and anchor of the TV3 Latvia current affairs program Nekā personīga (Nothing Personal) since 2008.
[1][2] In March 2006 on De Facto, she broke the story of Latvian national political leaders from various different parties buying votes.
[3] In retaliation, her phone was illegally tapped and transcripts of her conversations released to the media by her opponents in the government.
[1] In response to this invasion of her privacy, Jaunalksne took the government to court for defamation of character, which was the first such case in Latvia.
[1][2][4] She won, with the Latvian Financial Police being ordered to pay her 100,000 lats ($187,000) in damages for illegally recording her calls and making the transcripts public, and the Finance Ministry and State Revenue Service being found guilty of invading her privacy.