UPCOMING EVENTS

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

• February 3 - 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)