Latest documents on the state of media freedom in Europe
The newest in a series of Reports by CFOM’s International Director William Horsley finds that the disturbing record of physical and legal attacks on media workers in many parts of Europe in the second half of 2012 spells severe challenge for the Council of Europe. ‘An effective programme of action is needed if the Council of Europe is to reverse the trend towards the stifling of genuinely free and independent media in significant parts of Europe’, he concludes.
Read here the full Update Report on the State of Media Freedom in Europe, written for the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (Rapporteur Mats Johansson, Sweden)
William Horsley has been active as the International Director of CFOM since 2008, and as the Media Freedom Representative of the Association of European Journalists since 2007.
The State of Media Freedom in Europe during 2009-2012
Report by William Horsley, International Director of the Centre for Freedom of the Media, University of Sheffield, and Media Freedom Representative of the Association of European Journalists
On June 26th 2012 William Horsley, the International Director of the Centre for Freedom of the Media, University of Sheffield and Media Freedom Representative of the Association of European Journalist, presented a background Report summarising the many and growing threats to media freedom in Europe during the period 2009 to 2012 at a session of the Committee on Culture, Science, Education and Media of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg.
The state of media freedom in Europe
12 September 2011
The state of media freedom in Europe
Speech by William Horsley’ delivered during the special Hearing of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on Media Freedom in the Swedish Parliament in Stockholm.
The state of media freedom in Europe
About the author
William Horsley is the International Director of the Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM) at the University of Sheffield and the coordinator of the Initiative on Impunity and the Rule of Law, a joint research and advocacy project of CFOM and the Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism (CLJJ) at City University, London. This project has actively contributed to the work of UNESCO in drawing up and Action Plan on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity, involving all the relevant UN Agencies, which is to be finalished in 2012.
He also advances the Council of Europe’s work for freedom of expression and press freedom as the Media Freedom Representative of the Association of European Journalists. Until 2007 he was a BBC News Correspondent and presenter of TV and Radio programmes. He continues to write and broadcast on international politics and media policy issues on UK and international media outlets.
