CFOM to take part in consultation on the UN Action Plan on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity
CFOM members, Jackie Harrison, William Horsley and Stef Pukallus will participate in the multi-stakeholder Consultation on Strengthening the UN Action Plan on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity in Geneva on 29 June 2017. CFOM, as a partner of UNESCO...
CFOM part of effort to include Journalism Safety in the Jakarta Declaration for World Press Freedom Day 2017
On an initiative by Silvia Chocarro, IFEX Global Advocacy Strategist and CFOM member, members of the JSRN network as well as other academics and civil society organisations, including Committee to Protect Journalists, presented a joint proposal to include an explicit...
The inaugural conference on ‘Challenges to Media Freedom in the Commonwealth’: a boost for academic engagement with live issues of protecting press freedom and journalists’ safety
By Sara Torsner, PhD student at the University of Sheffield who is researching the design of a Journalism Safety Trends tool with CFOM where she is also working with developing the recently established Journalism Safety Research Network. Understanding the contexts in...
Is balance out of date? A survival guide for journalism
The open Internet age spells information overload and the demise of old media. The tenets of journalism –– balance and objectivity -- risk being swept away too. Will new ways be found to hold power to account? Or are we heading back towards information fortresses? In...
New CFOM logo
We are proud to introduce you to our new logo. Designed by Ink and Water, we feel that this new face reflects our greater involvement in the international stage.