Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom


CMPF Summer School Tackles Fake News

This year’s CMPF summer school, which tackles ‘Journalism in the digital age: responding to propaganda and fake news’, runs from 5-9 June. It offers training to 28 young journalist and media practitioners and is a unique networking opportunity.

Journalists on trial in Egypt

The trial of four Al Jazeera staff in Egypt shows the reality of the constraints journalists are forced to operate under in the country, says Andrea Calderaro of the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom at the EUI

Turkey Twitter ban: a new type of censorship

The closure of Twitter in Turkey is symptomatic of a new approach to internet censorship that seeks to control infrastructure rather than the content, according to Andrea Calderaro of the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, at the EUI

Award for internet and human rights paper

Two EUI academics have won the best student paper award at the first International Conference on Internet Science, held in Brussels from 9 to 11 April. Andrea Calderaro, a research assistant at the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF), part of the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, wrote the paper with Ben […]

Freedom of expression and human rights seminar

The director for international freedom of expression at the Washington-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, a rights organisation working on technology, will run a seminar at the EUI on 12 December. Jillian C York, formerly based at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, will be speaking about government control of the internet and how different […]