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...
This article has been syndicated from JuWiss at the Institute of Media and Communications Law at the University of Cologne where it was originally published ahead of the Deutsche Welle and Cologne University’s Institute for Media and Communications Law...
By Michael Quinn and William Horsley The CFOM Panel session, moderated by CFOM International Director William Horsley, was flagged as an event marking International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists. The session was organised under the auspices of the...
Dr. Irini Katsirea is Reader in International Media Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM) at the University of Sheffield, UK. The phenomenon of ‘fake news’, which came to the fore as a result of revelations about the commercial exploitation...