By Sara Torsner, PhD student at the University of Sheffield who is researching the design of a Journalism Safety Trends tool with CFOM where she is also working with developing the recently established Journalism Safety Research...
Read MorePosted by chrysadag | Apr 10, 2017 | Commentaries
By Jonathan Grun Guy Black – Lord Black of Brentwood – was addressing last week’s Institute of Commonwealth Studies conference on threats to press freedom in the Commonwealth when he felt compelled to mention the “elephant in...
Read MorePosted by chrysadag | Apr 7, 2017 | International Director's Column
This week the Secretary-General of the Commonwealth, Patricia Scotland QC, said the 52-nation organisation must recognise the weaknesses in government accountability that lie behind the violent deaths of 61 journalists worldwide...
Read MoreThe open Internet age spells information overload and the demise of old media. The tenets of journalism –– balance and objectivity — risk being swept away too. Will new ways be found to hold power to account? Or are we...
Read MorePosted by chrysadag | Mar 8, 2017 | Commentaries
By Dr. Irini Katsirea Since launching 25 years ago, private television stations in Greece have operated under ‘temporary’ licences. The Council of State (the Supreme Administrative Court of Greece) held that the unlicensed...
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