CFOM takes part in World Press Freedom Day 2022 in Uruguay
CFOM researchers travelled to Punta del Este, Uruguay to take part in World Press Freedom Day...
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Year: 2022
When media and politics merge, journalists become “the enemy”
The European Union claims it has understood that the demise of free and independent media spells the death of democracy. Europe, it’s said, has “learned the lessons” from being duped for years by Putin’s victim-blaming propaganda. For Europe’s major institutions journalists’ physical and legal safety is now a policy priority. An EU Media Freedom Act is in the pipeline. But is it already too late?
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Call for Contributions: Academic Consultation on the UN Action Plan on the Safety of Journalists
2022 marks the tenth anniversary of the UN Action Plan on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity. This is a call for contributions to the first in a series of academic consultations on the anniversary of the UN Action Plan to be held as a hybrid event (at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris and online), jointly co-organised by UNESCO, the Journalism Safety Research Network, the UNESCO Chair on Media Freedom, Journalism Safety and the Issue of Impunity/Centre for Freedom of the Media, University of Sheffield, the World of Journalism Study and the Centre for Digital Politics, Media and Democracy, University of Liverpool.
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Message from Mariupol: “Russian journalists, the blood of the dead is on your hands”
What responsibility should be borne by journalists who knowingly propagate lies which promote and enable the mass killing of civilians in war? That question came into stark relief when Anna Murlykina, a leading Mariupol-born journalist, gave chilling testimony from Ukraine at an online event hosted recently by the Council of Europe .
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Upcoming event: The Commonwealth and media freedom: Where do we stand?
On 27 April 2022 (12:30pm-2:00pm) the Institute of Commonwealth Studies will host the seminar “The Commonwealth and media freedom: Where do we stand?”. The seminar is arranged in collaboration with the Centre for Freedom of Media (CFOM) and focuses on Article V of the 2013 Commonwealth Charter which declares the commitment of all Commonwealth states to the values of freedom of expression.
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