Research
The Centre for Freedom of the Media is an international research centre which specialises in the critical examination of media freedom and standards addressing issues of threats to the former and the decline of the latter.
The Centre welcomes expressions of interest, proposals for collaboration or the pooling of knowledge from individual researchers, research groups and bodies in these areas.
The Initiative on Impunity and the Rule of Law: A Joint Project of City University, London and The University of Sheffield
The initiative for an international framework to protect journalists from violence and counter impunity. The initiative on Impunity and the Rule of Law was launched in 2010 by the Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM), University of Sheffield and the Centre for Law, Justice and Journalism (CLJJ), City University, London.
Read moreReporting Religion
“Reporting Religion” is a research project jointly run by Prof. Jackie Harrison (Journalism Studies) and Dr James Crossley (Biblical Studies).
Read moreThe state of media freedom in Europe
First MFP by William Horsley The state of media freedom in Europe 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. About the author William Horsley is the International Director of the Centre [...]
Read moreThe News Environment in Africa
This research is designed to analyse and assess the current news environment in Africa. This involves case studies, profiles, current developments, trends analysis and impact studies. Of special interest is the relation between journalists, the state and society. Also of interest are issues involving media development, journalism education and training in Africa, and the ways [...]
Read moreExtending the Civil and Social Role of Public Service Media
This research explores way in which public service standards of journalism can be maintained and in some case extended in the contemporary media environment. Two themes are of particular concern. First, the way news journalism can sustain a commitment to the highest standards of accuracy and sincerity in the modern media environment in order to [...]
Read moreDoctoral Students
Sara McConnell
Sara is researching her PhD in the Department of Journalism Studies at Sheffield University. Her research centres on the challenges to journalistic culture and professionalism from changing newsroom practice as newsrooms converge and journalism jobs change. As part of her fieldwork, she will be carrying out ethnographic and observational research in three UK national newsrooms to try and answer questions about how journalists perceive their role and purpose in a changing environment of digital communication.
Read moreMonica Alejandra Pena Corona
Monica’s PhD study in the Department of Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield aimed to examine to what extent the close relationship that the Mexican media and the government traditionally held during most of the 20th century had changed as a product of recent political transformations. The research adopted the concept of political clientelism [...]
Read moreLada Price
Lada is a part-time PhD student at the Department of Journalism in theUniversity of Sheffield. Her PhD explores the changes in the Bulgarian media that have taken and still are taking place (from 1989 until 2007) from the journalists perspective.
Read moreMuhammad Jameel Yusha’u
Jameel is a PhD student in the Department of Journalism Studies working on the comparative coverage of corruption scandals between northern and southern press in Nigeria. The research is exploring the factors that influence the reporting of corruption such as clientelism, regionalism,ownership, press freedom etc. The methodology used is qualitative interviews and qualitative content analysis. [...]
Read moreStefanie Pukallus
Stefanie Pukallus is a PhD student at the Department of Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield critically examining the communication strategy of the European Commission in terms of its civil and political aims and effectiveness. The concept of EU citizenship and subsequently the EU citizen form the central thread of the study’s investigation of [...]
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