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.
CFOM Panel on “Seen and Unseen Barriers to Media Freedom” on 14 November during International Journalism Week 2019
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...
‘“Fake news”: Reconsidering the value of untruthful expression in the face of regulatory uncertainty’
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...
Media capture in Italy by violence and intimidation
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...
State capture of public media: the case of “Wiadomości” (the News), Polish public television main daily newscast
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...
Lies, damned lies, and the state capture of Polish public television
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...