UPCOMING EVENTS

April 9 2010 William Horsley of CFOM chairs annual World Press Freedom Day debate at London's Frontline Club on the theme: " Unregulated political comment online helps the democratic process". View details

April 27 2010 Thomson-Reuters-UACES awards for "Reporting Europe" journalism prize, London

3 May 2010 International World Press Freedom Day
For World Press Freedom Day events in the UK, details will be posted on Unesco's website

CFOM RECENT EVENTS

26 March 2010 Reporting Religion One day workshop, The University of Sheffield

March 25 2010 Index on Censorship presents its annual Freedom of Expression awards for journalism, new media, publishing and law/campaigning, at the Free Word Centre, London.

24 March 2010 The Future of News (Discussion) Central Hall Westminster, London

February 3 2009 - CFOM hits the ground running with successful launch at Chatham House, London.

• The conference explored the part played by the popular demand for free expression as a factor in the anti-communist revolutions, and assessed the evidence that a widespread retreat of press and political freedom has taken place in recent years across many parts of post-Cold War Europe and Russia.
• For a full transcript of the speeches click here (PDF file opens in new window)
• For William Horsley's opening remarks click here (PDF file opens in a new window)
  
  
• The speakers were:
  
  
• Keynote Speaker - Jens Reich, former leader of New Forum pro-democracy movement in East Germany
• Lionel Barber, Editor of the Financial Times
• Miklós Haraszti, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media
• Masha Lipman, Editor of Pro and Contra
  
• Lionel Barber, Editor of The Financial Times
  
• Irina Demchenko, UK Bureau Chief, RIA-Novosti
  
• Aleksei Simonov, Glasnost Defence Foundation
  
• William Bowring, Human Rights Lawyer and expert in Council of Europe cases, Professor of Law, Birkbeck College, University of London
• Lilia Shevtsova, Carnegie Moscow Center

Jens Reich addresses the conference	The panel	Masha Lipman	Jens Reich
The discussion in full flow	A speaker makes a point	Lilia Shevtsova	Lionel Barber

General Events

• October 5-6th 2009 Vienna, Austria: international conference "The War on Words - Terrorism, Media and the Law." Speakers include Philip Zelikow, U.S. Department of State Counsellor under George W. Bush and former Executive Director of the 9/11 Commission. Click here to read more.

• April 21 2009, London - Annual Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards Ceremony

• World Press Freedom Day
• 2009 Student Writing competition
• May 5 2009: 60th Anniversary of the founding of the Council of Europe. (This page is the CoE official diary of events for 2009, opens in new window)
  
• May 12 2009 will see a special meeting of CoE member states'foreign ministers in Madrid to mark the 60th anniversary (opens in new window)
• May 28-29 2009: Council of Europe Ministerial conference on "Trust in today's and future Media"  in Reykjavic, Iceland, May 28-29 2009 (opens in new window)

More to come...

October 6 2009 in Warsaw, Poland: Holding governments to their freedom of expression commitments

William Horsley chairs a debate at the ODIHR annual conference on "UK perspectives on holding governments to their Freedom of Expression commitments". Speakers include OSCE
Representative on Media Freedom Miklos Haraszti.

June 8 & 9 2009 Seminar on Mass Violence and the Media 

CFOM hosted a two day research seminar ‘The End is where we start from: Media Coverage of Genocide and Mass Violence’ at the University of Sheffield. Read more

• UACES-Reuters "Reporting Europe" Prize (opens in new window)
• The Foreign Press Association (London) awards (opens in new window)
• The WAZ-IFJ AWard for Courage in Journalism (opens in new window)
• The World Association of Newspapers Press Freedom Award (opens in new window)
• Freedom House & Committee to Protect Journalists (opens in new window)