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...

World Press Freedom Day in Africa meant loud drums and a gathering of almost a thousand people - including Ghana’s president, senior  African judges, hundreds of West African journalists and a keen circus of press freedom advocates from all corners of the world. The...

Proposals which were described as 'important and timely' were submitted for the attention of Commonwealth leaders by an expert Working Group for a new 'code' on media-government relations, but they were ignored in the final Communique. Even so, foreign ministers from...

Gdansk is a bitter-sweet symbol of Poland’s fight against tyranny back in the time of Lech Walesa. The three tall metal crosses erected over the Gdansk shipyard  recall the heady days in 1980 when Solidarity, the East bloc’s first free trade union, triumphed in a...