New CFOM study compares editorial standards and complaints handling before and after IPSO
The Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM), University of Sheffield, has conducted a two-year comprehensive study of editorial standards of accuracy and complaints handling pre- and post-IPSO. At a time of intense political debate about disinformation in general, and...
World Press Freedom Day 2020 – free and independent journalism grounded in truth and fact is crucial to remedying COVID-19 disinformation crisis writes UNESCO Chair Jackie Harrison
Every year, World Press Freedom Day (May 3) is a day when we celebrate the fundamental principles of press freedom and the invaluable work journalists do to provide the public with reliable and accurate information. Confronted as we are with the current COVID-19...
COVID-19 ‘disinfodemic’ – CFOM researchers reveal the scale of life-threatening coronavirus disinformation in new UNESCO reports
Two members of the Centre for Freedom of the Media research team at the University of Sheffield, Julie Posetti (who is Global Director of Research at the International Center for Journalists) and Kalina Bontcheva (who is Head of the Natural Language Processing...