Recently, Commonwealth Law Ministers unanimously adopted the Commonwealth Media Principles on Freedom of Expression and the Role of the Media in Good Governance. How will these principles expand upon the Commonwealth Charter’s Article 5 on Freedom of...
Europe’s Media Freedom project aims to reverse “democratic backsliding”July 26, 2023 | International Director's ColumnCouncil of Europe multi-stakeholder campaign to start in October William Horsley, CFOM International Director Eight years ago the Council of Europe...
CFOM International Director William Horsley reports on a meeting to imagine routes to a safe environment for journalists.The 2023 RSF Press Freedom Index highlights aggressive behaviour by governments towards journalists and the rapid growth of the “disinformation...
William Horsley, CFOM International Director, 26 April 2023“Is it time to scrap the Commonwealth?” The question was met with laughter when asked at a gathering of Commonwealth insiders last January in Windsor Great Park, but it was meant seriously. Joel Kibazo, a...
By William Horsley, CFOM International Director and Executive Committee member of the Commonwealth Journalists Association 12 December 2022 A meeting of Commonwealth Law Ministers in Mauritius ended on November 25 with agreement (see para. 24) to adopt a set of...
By William Horsley, International Director of CFOM, University of Sheffield The Role of Commonwealth Governments in Journalism Safety Years of inaction by Commonwealth governments in response to violent assaults and excessive restraints on the work of independent...
By William Horsley, CFOM International Director Zsombor György has a Catch 22 problem. The editor in chief of Magyar Hang, Hungarian Voice, has declared that the newspaper will go out of business this summer unless it finds a fresh injection of income. In Hungary’s...
By William Horsley, CFOM International Director 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...