By William Horsley “It’s never been so bad”. With those words Kayode Soyinka, the London-based publisher of Africa Today, summed up the wide consensus that emerged from the Media Freedom Panel discussion during the Taking Stock of the Commonwealth day-long global...

By William Horsley, International Director, CFOM An ambitious and wide-ranging agenda The chairman of the UK government’s independent High-Level Panel of Legal Experts, Lord Neuberger, has outlined its ambitious plans two months after the panel was established at the...

William Horsley, International Director, Centre for Freedom of the Media, University of Sheffield and UK Chairman of the Association of European Journalists. Lecture given at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences Symposium Presse - und Medienfreiheit in der EU –...

William Horsley, International Director of CFOM, Centre for Freedom of the Media, University of Sheffield The legal actions against Julian Assange have far-reaching implications for the public’s right to know, but also for public trust in journalism and the workings...

William Horsley, the International Director and Co-Founder of CFOM, writes about the Foreign Secretary's decision to make the safety of journalists a flagship policy. Clear that this is an important step from Jeremy Hunt, William lays out, in a piece originally...

By William Horsley, CFOM International Director On Thursday November 7, 2018, a topical CFOM Panel debate was held on ‘The Assault on Press Freedom: Why attacks on journalists spell danger for the Rule of Law and Democracy’. It took place during the University of...

Two journalists’ murders have shaken the EU’s claim to be a champion of democracy and the rule of law. The killing of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia in a remote-controlled car bomb explosion near her home in Malta last October and the mafia...