Dr Sara Torsner
Research Associate
Sara has been working as a Research Associate to the UNESCO Chair on Media Freedom, Journalism Safety and the Issue of Impunity, Professor Jackie Harrison, since October 2018. Sara joined the department in September 2015 as a PhD student and was awarded her PhD, entitled ‘Profiling the Civil Diminishment of Journalism: A conceptual framework for understanding the causes and manifestations of risk to journalism’ in 2019. Sara’s PhD project was a White Rose DTP/ESRC Collaborative PhD studentship involving the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM).
- Torsner, S. (2022) Understanding journalistic institutional precarity: A macro approach to risk and the civil diminishment of journalism. International Journal of Communication.
- Harrison J, Maynard D & Torsner S (2020) Strengthening the monitoring of violations against journalists through an events-based methodology. Media and Communication, 8(1), 89-100.
- Torsner, S. (2022). Opportunities and challenges for academic engagement in the multi-stakeholder agenda to safeguard journalists. In Iordanidou, S. and Dagoula, C. (Eds.), 6+1 Proposals for Journalism: Safeguarding the Field in the Digital Era (pp. 160-172), London: Intellect Books
- Torsner, S., (2017). Measuring Journalism Safety: Methodological Challenges. In U. Carlsson & R. Pöyhtäri (Eds.), The Assault on Journalism (pp. 129-138). Gothenburg: NORDICOM.
- Harrison, J. and Torsner, S. (2022). Safety of journalists and media freedom: trends in non-EU countries from a human rights perspective. European Parliament, Directorate-General for External Policies, Policy Department (Report: June 2022 -PE 702.562).
- Posetti et. al (2021). The Chilling: global trends in online violence against women journalists. UNESCO discussion paper.
- Torsner, S. (2022, January 5). Increasing numbers of physical attacks on European journalists as they report on COVID and other stories. The Conversation.
- Torsner, S. and Harrison, J. (2021, April 20). Press freedom: how governments are using COVID as an excuse to crack down on the public’s right to know. The Conversation.