Janet Harris, ex- BBC Freelance Documentary film maker, writes about her experience in working with fixers and why we can't overlook the role they play Many people have not come across the term ‘fixer’ before. The Cambridge Dictionary states that a fixer is ‘someone...
By Gemma Horton, Impact Fellow, Centre for Freedom of the Media In recent years, the threats that journalists face have grown considerably. 2022 witnessed a rise in the number of journalists killed worldwide following a decrease over the past three years. 86...
By Stef Pukallus and Jackie HarrisonCFOM attended UNESCO’s Internet for Trust Conference from 21-23 February in Paris. It was a multi-stake holder conference to discuss the current version of UNESCO’s draft guidelines on how to regulate the Internet. The over 4000...
Sergiy Tomilenko (pictured left), head of Ukraine’s National Union of Journalists, tells how he and his colleagues risk their lives to report the realities of Russia’s aggressive war: the bombardment of cities and hateful Russian propaganda; how Russian troops try to...
By Tina Burrett, Associate Professor of Political Science at Sophia University, Tokyo and co-editor of Press Freedom in Contemporary Asia (Routledge 2019). Since the military coup in Myanmar on 1 February, more than 600 pro-democracy protesters have been killed and...
Rachael Jolley talks to Kashmiri journalist Bilal Hussain about why the international community needs to act. “The moment you talk about it, it makes a difference. It does make a difference. It does put a pressure on, because if nobody talks about it, they think that...
By Jan Kalbhenn, the Department of Information, Telecommunication and Media law, University of Münster. A series of new laws in Germany addresses the impact of the platform economy on public discourse I. The debate on societies’ future is decided online Societies...
By Bojana Kostić Bojana Kostić is a legal researcher and practitioner specialised in information and media law. In 2019, Bojana with her team of researchers -- Dr. Abdelkrim Hizaoui, a researcher on media regulation, Manijza Aziz, a knowledge and quality officer at...