Category: News

The new book entitled “A Mission to inform: Journalists at risk speak out”, authored Prof. Marilyn Clark from the University of Malta and William Horsley, International Director of the Centre for Freedom of the Media, is based on first-hand in-depth interviews with 20 journalists from 18 Council of Europe member states, and narrates their experiences of persecution.

The Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM) is participating in a global research project examining the incidence and impacts of online violence against women journalists, and effective measures to combat the problem. The project is led by United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) and involves a consortium of scholars and researchers from around the world.

A new UN Broadband Commission research report authored by CFOM researchers Kalina Bontcheva, Julie Posetti, and Diana Maynard, alongside a multidisciplinary team of international researchers, maps the diverse range of global responses to disinformation, along with the impacts of counter-disinformation measures on the right to freedom of opinion and expression, as described in Article 19 of the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights. 

Are you a citizen of or have been granted refugee status by a Commonwealth country and would like to pursue a PhD here with us at the Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM) as part of the Department of Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield? It is time to apply for the 2020 Commonwealth PhD Scholarships round!