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...
Alberto Spampinato, president of Ossigeno per l’Informazione. He spoke during the CFOM Panel session on ‘media capture’ at the Sheffield Hallam University International Journalism Summer School on June 28, 2019, you can see full footage of his presentation at the end...
by Andrzej Krajewski “Addressing Global Challenges to Journalism and Press Freedom” was the theme of the International Summer School hosted by Sheffield Hallam University in cooperation with the University of Sheffield in the last week of July 2019. On 28 July CFOM’s...
By Andrzej Krajewski Andrzej Krajewski is a former TVP Washington correspondent; and was the adviser on freedom of expression in Poland’s National Broadcasting Council, KRRiT, 2012-2016. On a snowy February 2019 evening over 150 demonstrators gathered in front of the...
By Dr Sanae Fujita, Fellow of the Human Rights Centre, School of Law, University of Essex New research and analysis supports the UN Special Rapporteur David Kaye's findings from his 2017 Japan report and presents fresh cases pointing to need...
Professor Jackie Harrison, CFOM Chair, writes about the long history of media manipulation and fake news, and the staying power of quality journalism. This piece for The Conversation, published on the World Press Freedom Day 2018, marks also...
By Nadezda Azhgikhina, vice president of the European Federation of Journalists and board member of the Free Word Association. In 2017 the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation handed down an exceptionally important decision. It struck down a series of...
Emma Heywood, a Lecturer and Researcher at the University of Sheffield’s Department of Journalism Studies, wrote this article which has been published on The Conversation based on her first-hand experience of life in the West Bank, where her research is focused on the...