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Media Freedom: ‘Without action the Commonwealth’s fine words will fail to impress.’
In this guest post, journalist and Africa analyst Martin Plaut, calls on the Commonwealth to take a more robust view on new threats to journalistic independence. Do they challenge democracy and human rights as much as freedom of speech? The Commonwealth has a problem:...
Conference: The Commonwealth and Challenges to Media Freedom
Date 4 Apr 2017, 10:00 to 5 Apr 2017, 18:00 Venue Institute of Advanced Legal Studies 17 Russell Square, London WC1B 5DR Book Online: SAS Events Calendar Description: Convenor: Sue Onslow, ICwS Senior Lecturer and Co-Investigator, The Oral History of the Commonwealth...
Signed Statement Condemns DHS Proposal to Demand Passwords to Enter the U.S.
A group of 50 organisations and nearly 90 individual experts have signed a statement against the US Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) proposal to ask non-citizens to provide the passwords to their social media accounts in order to enter the United States. The...
Call for papers: Critical Research in Information Law
Deadline 15 March 2017 The Information Law Group at the University of Sussex is pleased to announce its annual PhD and Work in Progress Workshop on 3 May 2017. The workshop, chaired by Professor Chris Marsden, will provide doctoral students with an opportunity to...
Conference: The Power Switch; How Power is Changing in a Networked World
Cripps Court auditorium, Magdalene College, 1-3 Chesterton Road, Cambridge 31 March 2017, 09:00 - 18:15 Registration for this conference is now open, please register here. The full programme is available here. Full fee £20 (includes refreshments and lunch) Student and...
Trump is right: stories will dry up if the press can’t use anonymous sources
By Judith Townend, University of Sussex and Richard Danbury, De Montfort University Donald Trump has declared war on anonymous sources and wants to ban their use by journalists. In a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on February 24, he...
Two Research Associate Posts at Hertie School of Governance
For the project 'Evolving Internet Interfaces: Content Control and Privacy Protection' within the Deutsche Foschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) research group on 'Overlapping Spheres of Authority and Interface Conflicts in the Global Order'...
ILPC launches new report: ‘Protecting Sources and Whistleblowers in a Digital Age’
The emergence of an everyday digital culture and the increasing use of legal instruments by state actors to collect and access communications data has led to growing concern about the protection of journalistic sources and whistleblowers. With the support of Guardian...
CFP: Bytes, Bodies and Souls: Interrogating Human Digitalisation
Kent Law School, in conjunction with the Eastern Academic Research Consortium, invites early career academics and postgraduate research students to participate in the “Bytes, Bodies and Souls: Interrogating Human Digitalisation” workshop to be held on 30th May, 2017....
Reflections on ‘Freedom of Information’ at 250
In December 2016, the Information Law and Policy Centre co-organised an event celebrating the 250th anniversary of the world’s first law providing a right to information. It was hosted by free expression NGO, Article 19 at the Free Word Centre and supported by the...