Publications
The Centre for Freedom of the Media researchs about issues related to media freedom through its MFP -Media Freedom Papers-, a series of reports on the state of media liberty worldwide, violations against media freedom, legal impunity etc.
Media Freedom Papers (MFP) Number 1: The state of media freedom in Europe
by William Horsley
Horsley’s report analyses the situation of the media in the old continent and urges European institutions to take stronger actions in order to end with threats against press freedom and independence in Europe.
- 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.
Read moreMedia Freedom Papers (MFP) Number 2 and 3: Freedom of information and media plurality. A tool against inequality
by Andrés Cañizalez
Cañizalez, director of the Venezuelan chapter of the Press and Society Institute (IPYS), examines in the first paper the links between media freedom and poverty, and the way mass media should work to decrease social inequalities. The second one is focused on the case of Venezuela, a country in which more media pluralism is needed to foster democratic institutions.
- Freedom of information and expression at the service of justice in a world of inequality
- Venezuela. Hegemony destroys pluralism
About the author
Andrés Cañizález is a researcher at the Centre of Communication Research at the Universidad Católica Andres Bello (UCAB), in Caracas. He also serves as academic coordinator of UCAB’s Program for Advanced Studies in Freedom of Expression and the Right to Information.Ph.D. in political science at Simón Bolívar University. In 2002, he founded and assumed directorship of the Venezuelan chapter of the Press and Society Institute. An incisive commentator on relations between government and media in Venezuela, Cañizález directed the quarterly Jesuit magazine Comunicación from 2000 to 2006. Widely published in Venezuelan periodicals, he recently contributed two chapters—one on the Venezuelan media and another on national broadcasting systems—to the edited volume The Media in Latin America, published by McGraw Hill (London) in 2008.
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