Media Freedom Project

December 14^th, 2023

Please register via this link before or on December 13th.

Logging in and welcome: 9:00

Panel 1 (Understanding and measuring media freedom): 9.05-10.20

Chaired by Lada Trifonova Price

Aurora Herrera (Middlesex University and the University of West London)

The Controlled Watchdog: A new index for measuring media freedom in Trinidad and Tobago

Peter Greste (Macquarie University)

The Process of Freedom: Redefining journalism

Stefanie Pukallus (University of Sheffield)

Exiling journalists as an attack on media freedom

Break: 10.20-10.30

Panel 2  (Impact of platforms, big businesses and beyond): 10.30-12.00

Chaired by William Horsley

Andrew Kenyon (University of Melbourne)

Media freedom, platforms and public speech: European efforts to sustain democratic communication

Richard Murray (The University of Queensland)

Be careful what you wish for: the hidden costs to press freedom of big tech money in Australian journalism

Peter Greste (Macquarie University) and Richard Murray (The University of Queensland)

The Business of News and Freedom of the Press

Lada Trifonova Price (University of Sheffield), Marilyn Clark (University of Malta), Lambrini Papadopoulou (University of Athens) and Theodora A. Maniou (University of Cyprus)

Southern European press challenges in a time of crisis: a cross-national study of Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece and Malta

Break: 12.00-12.10

Panel 3 (Political authorities and media freedom): 12.10-13.40

Chaired by Jingrong Tong

William Horsley (University of Sheffield)

Two steps forward and one step back? An overview of changes in normative frameworks of protection for media freedom and their real-world impact

Fiona O’Brien (Reporters Without Borders)

Transnational repression in a digital age: the use of social media to silence exiled journalists

Halil Saç and Nurcan TÖRENLİ (Ankara University)

Media Freedom and the ‘Refunctionalized New Public Sphere’

A. Buğra Kalender (Selcuk University)

The Rise of Digital Authoritarianism in Türkiye

Lunch break: 13.40-14.20

Panel 4 (Media freedom in different countries): 14.20-15.50

Chaired by Irini Katsirea

Sunil Belladi (Symbiosis International University, India)

Threats & intimidation met by Foot- Soldiers of Journalism, an analytical appraisal of Indian Media

Laeed Zaghlami (Algiers University)

Algeria’s position on media freedom

Jingrong Tong (University of Sheffield)

Media freedom in the UK

Ilia Utekhin (Indiana University) and Ilia Venyavkin (Bard College and the Russian Independent Media Archive)

Censorship Detector: A Data-Driven Approach to Understanding Media Freedom in Russia

Break: 15.50-16.00

Panel 5 (Legislation and Media freedom): 16.00-17.50

Chaired by Jingrong Tong

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ)

Tackling the growing scourge of SLAPPs

Irini Katsirea (University of Sheffield)

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t: Media freedom and moderation of journalistic content

Ekaterina Balabanova (University of Liverpool) and Gemma Horton (University of Sheffield)

The importance of the European Convention on Human Rights in protecting media freedom in the United Kingdom

Gergely Gosztonyi habil (Eötvös Loránd University) and Gergely Ferenc Lendvai (University of Milan and Pázmány Péter Catholic University)

Media Freedom in Europe: Analyzing the Impact of EMFA on the Digital Sphere

Jong Sun Choi (Hanyang University, Korea University, and University of Sheffield)

Study on Internet News Regulation in South Korea