By Professor Jackie Harrison Access to information either as a journalist, or as a citizen through the products of journalism, lies in the crossfire of what Michael Schudson calls ‘the rise of the right to know’ and the stark reality of increasing attacks and threats...
By Dr Irini Katsirea On the position of the electronic press under the Audiovisual Media Services Directive, and the implications of the New Media Online case for the future of media frameworks. The regulation of the press in an era of media convergence is a thorny...
By Professor Jackie Harrison and Dr Stef Pukallus. It is time for the European Commission to make sure that the EU lives up to its Charter of Fundamental Rights and the Treaty on European Union (TEU) Of course there is nothing new to the idea that a state censors...
The changing face of online media is leaving traditional news outlets behind. Newspapers are struggling to fund their print editions. The Independent recently stopped printing and the Guardian is expected to make a £53 million loss by the end of March. News media must...
By Iakovos Iakovidis On November 2, 2013, two French journalists, Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon, died outside Kidal, in Northern Mali from the bullets of yet-to-be identified killers. Unfortunately, they were neither the first nor the last journalists who died...
A selection of think-pieces by William Horsley, Nicholas Jones, and Masha Lipman "Euro elections: newspaper websites break new ground in challenging radio and television" (PDF ) By Nicholas Jones 15.6.2009 Political journalism: the perils of writing to a...
Can the ICC offer legal protection to targeted journalists? On April 7 2014, Judge Sanji Mmasenono Monageng spoke at the BBC-CFOM Symposium on the protection of journalists and the issue of impunity held at BBC Broadcasting House in London. She delivered the most...
By Sara McConnell “And to you, the press, I say, shame, shame on all of you”. The words of the coroner at the recent inquest into the suicide of transsexual primary school teacher Lucy Meadows sum up what many people clearly feel about this country’s press. They...