The CFOM Media Freedom Student Project Award 2016-17
This award has been created to recognise outstanding work produced by students studying MA Global...
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Author: chrysadag
The Hungarian laboratory for limiting press and civic freedoms
The Hungarian parliament recently adopted a new law forcing NGOs to register as ‘‘foreign-supported organization” if they receive more than 24,000 Euros from foreign donors per year. With this legislation the Hungarian government and the ruling right-wing party, Fidesz, are following the path set by President Putin in Russia and President Erdogan in Turkey. The branding of NGOs as ‘foreign agents’ and “potential dangers to the country”, and the sustained attacks on them by the pro-government media, can be considered as a new milestone on the road to the “illiberal democracy” that was declared by Prime Minister and Fidesz leader Viktor Orbán in 2014.
Read MoreCFOM to take part in consultation on the UN Action Plan on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity
CFOM members, Jackie Harrison, William Horsley and Stef Pukallus will participate in the multi-stakeholder Consultation on Strengthening the UN Action Plan on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity in Geneva on 29...
Read MorePoints of view on media freedom in the Balkans: the cases of Macedonia and Serbia
By Petar Milin and Xhevahire Pruthi Zajazi Media is in the grip of ‘soft-censorship’ and must break free for a democratic future After Macedonia was thrown into political turmoil in 2015, journalism there suffered an...
Read MoreJournalists’ Safety Research Network will increase research capacity and knowledge exchange among the community of journalism safety experts
By Sara Torsner Journalistic safety has long been a relatively unexplored topic by academia, but as NORDICOM Professor Ulla Carlsson said at the book launch of The Assault on Journalism, we can now begin to see the emergence of...
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