CFOM publishes commentary pieces focused on media freedom, journalism safety and the issue of impunity from researchers across the globe on areas that they study. If you are interested in writing a commentary for us please email cfom@sheffield.ac.uk.
The “Russian Law” Model: Journalists as “Foreign Agents”
Anastasiia Vorozhtsova, freelance writer and editor at Columbia Global Freedom of Expression, discusses how "foreign agent” laws are silencing journalists in Russia“THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) WAS PRODUCED, DISTRIBUTED BY FOREIGN AGENT [FIRST NAME, PATRONYMIC,...
From Trump to Netanyahu: When Democracies Turn on the Press
Massimo D’Angelo, Lecturer at the University of Greenwich and Research Fellow at Loughborough University London, discusses the pressures on independent media in democracies across the globeIn their influential 2018 book How Democracies Die, scholars Steven Levitsky...
Upholding Public Service Media’s Values in the AI Age
Laura Pranteddu, PhD Candidate at Università della Svizzera italiana, talks about how we can make sure public service media is protected in the age of AI I began researching artificial intelligence in digital journalism in 2021. Initially, my research focused on...
‘The Librarians’: Book bans and the illiberal turn
‘The Bible is kept locked up, the way people once kept tea locked up, so the servants wouldn’t steal it. It is an incendiary device: who knows what we’d made of it if we ever got our hands on it?’ (Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale)Kim A. Snyder’s absorbing new...
Seeing is Believing? Journalism at a Crossroads in the Age of Synthetic Imagery
Astrid Vandendaele, Assistant Professor of Journalism and New Media, discusses AI generated images and how journalists are adapting to using them in newsrooms When an AI-generated image of an explosion near the Pentagon circulated online in 2023, the global media...