[Commlist] An Online Symposium on Threats to Media Freedom

You are warmly invited to attend an online symposium on threats to media 
freedom organised by the School of Journalism, Media and Communication 
at the University of Sheffield, on Thursday, December 14th, 2023, via 
Google Meet.

Experts from Reporters Without Borders, The National Union of 
Journalists, and the Russian Independent Media Archive will join 
international scholars to explore the threats against journalism posed 
by legislation, political authorities, and commercial power.

To take part, Please register via this link 
<https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfXeW0kdwuKc3TzG1bGmOLzWa33ksd0dV2NfU36ogHe8b1P3Q/viewform> 
before or on December 13^th , 2023.

The programme is below. The full event brochure in PDF format and the 
joining link will be available to participants in due course.

*Programme *

*Logging in and welcome: 9:00*

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*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/

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*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/

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*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/

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Irini Katsirea (University of Sheffield)

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

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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/

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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/

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

/Study on Internet News Regulation in South Korea/


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