On May 3rd, during the Word Press Freedom Day celebrations in Accra, a network meeting with members of the Journalism Safety Research Network (JSRN) was held to gather ideas for continuing to develop the network and building research driven knowledge and capacity related to issues of journalism safety.
Read MoreOn 11 December CFOM’s international director, William Horsley, will speak on ‘Freedom of the Media and impunity of murders of journalists’ at a meeting of experts in Vienna convened by the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the...
Read MoreUNESCO’s regional seminar held in Sri Lanka on 4 December to mark the UN’s International Day to End Impunity for crimes against Journalists was the occasion for a highly significant pledge by the Sri Lankan government. Prime...
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Nick Robinson told some awkward truths about Britain’s broadcasting media in the inaugural Steve Hewlett Lecture on Thursday: above all the need for them to up their game by defending impartiality and engaging ‘dissident’ voices. He captured the excitement and confusion of the great debate about ‘whose side the media is on’ which comes from the mainstream media swimming in the same ocean of facts, half-facts and ‘alt facts’ as all comers in the era of the Internet, smart phone and self-broadcasting apps like Periscope.
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In advance of World Press Freedom Day on 3 May, Reporters Without Borders has published its 2017 World Press Freedom Index. In RWB’s assessment, almost across the board, countries known as democracies have fallen back in press freedom terms because of the negative impact of laws, regulations and cases of criminalising journalism: among them the US, the UK, Canada, Poland and Hungary.
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