Jackie Harrison gives evidence at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office’s Foreign Affairs Committee on Global Media Freedom
The UK has committed to launching, what UK Foreign Minister Jeremy Hunt at World Press Freedom Day 2019 in Ethiopia described as ‘a global campaign to protect journalists doing their job and promote the benefits of a free media’. In July, the UK will host a...
Ground-breaking CFOM research: strengthening the monitoring of SDG 16.10.1
Our CFOM members Diana Maynard, Sara Torsner and Jackie Harrison presented their ongoing research that aims to facilitate the comprehensive monitoring of violations against journalists in line with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 16.10.1 at the World Press Freedom...
WPFD 2019 civil norm-building: towards constructive dialogue and shared narratives
Focusing on the topic of the role of the media in conflict-prone and divided societies, a World Press Freedom Day session in Addis Ababa discussed possibilities for journalism to facilitate constructive dialogue and the building of collective narratives that bring...
Jackie Harrison is encouraging the role of academia at World Press Freedom Day
As part of the World Press Freedom Day commemoration in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the fourth Academic Conference on the Safety of Journalists was held on 1 May. In his opening speech, UNESCO Director of Media Freedom and Development, Guy Berger emphasised the important...
Journalists are dying all around the world in different settings – this is their plight and it shouldn’t be forgotten
On the 8th March 2019, United Nations Cinema screened Under The Wire in partnership with The British Museum in London to mark International Women's Day. Under The Wire, based on photo journalist Paul Conroy's book by the same title, documents his and war-correspondent...