Presenters
See below for details of our wonderful line-up of speakers for International Journalism Week.
Prof Jackie Harrison
Annual UNESCO Chair on Media Freedom, Journalism Safety and the Issue of Impunity
Keynote Address
Jackie Harrison is the Head of Department, Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield. Jackie is a Professor of Public Communication, UNESCO Chair on Media Freedom, Journalism Safety and the Issue of Impunity and has been chair of the interdisciplinary research institute Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM) since 2008. She joined the Department of Journalism Studies as a lecturer in September 1996 and was appointed Professor of Public Communication in January 2005. As UNESCO Chair on Media Freedom, Journalism Safety and the Issue of Impunity, Jackie actively promotes in-depth collaborative academic research with centres of expertise, media and NGOs, governments and international bodies on issues of journalism safety, media freedom, freedom of expression, media capture and the effectiveness of the media as a civil institution. Jackie is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences and has worked with the UK government’s Multilateral Policy Directorate, and the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, to mention a few.
Dr Lada Price
IJW Past and prospects
Dr. Lada Trifonova Price is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. Part of her research is focused on media and journalistic practice in transitional democracies. Lada is researching threats to press freedom such as censorship and self-censorship, ethical challenges to journalistic practice, and violence/abuse against journalists. She is a convenor of the Journalism Education and Trauma Research Group (JETREG), a multidisciplinary team of researchers from many countries around the world aiming to build resilience and trauma awareness among journalists and embed trauma informed literacy in the journalism curriculum. Lada is a member of the Association of Journalism Educators executive committee. She is the main editor of the recently published Routledge Companion to Journalism Ethics with Wendy Wyatt and Karen Sanders.
Szabolcs Panyi
Stephanie Kirchgaessner
Pegasus: Implications for journalism
Szabolcs graduated from Eötvös Loránd University where he studied Hungarian language and literature. Between 2013 and 2018, he was an editor and political reporter at Index.hu. Meanwhile, he helped launch VSquare.org, a cross-border investigative journalism initiative in the Visegrád region. At Arizona State University, he studied investigative journalism on a Fulbright Fellowship in 2017-2018. In the fall of 2018, he joined Direkt36, where he mainly works on stories related to national security and foreign policy. He was shortlisted for the European Press Prize in 2018 and 2021.
Dr Edson Tandoc Jr.
Media freedom in Asia: online harassment, fake news and trolls.
Edson C. Tandoc Jr. is an Associate Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore and an Associate Editor of Digital Journalism and Human Communication Research. He is also the author of Analyzing Analytics: Disrupting Journalism One Click at a Time (Routledge, 2019) and co- editor of Critical Incidents in Journalism: Pivotal Moments Reshaping Journalism around the World (Routledge, 2020). He is also the Director of NTU’s new Centre for Information Integrity and the Internet (IN-cube). His research focuses on the impact of emerging technologies on news production and consumption.
Dr. Gregory Asmolov
The hybrid models of journalistic investigations: crowdsourcing, outsourcing, insourcing.
Olesya Shmagun
How to investigate corruption using big data
Dr Benjamin Muindi
Muthoki Mumo
Media freedom in the digital age: focus on Africa
Benjamin Muindi has vast knowledge and experience of the African media landscape having worked as a journalist and academic. Benjamin is an alumnus of the UK’s Chevening fellowship and acquired a master’s degree from the University of Leeds in 2014. Benjamin has a doctorate degree in media studies from Daystar University in Kenya where he is also an adjunct faculty. His PhD research explored the lived experiences of foreign and local journalists in Kenya who report on terrorism. He has a decade of experience in media practice mainly working for the mainstream media in Kenya, the Nation Media Group. Benjamin delights in teaching journalism but is also an experienced researcher who has published in peer reviewed academic spaces. He is excited to discuss media freedom in the digital age with an African focus in this year’s International Journalism Week at the University of Sheffield. Tweet Benjamin @MuindiMutie
Muthoki Mumo is the Committee to Protect Journalists' sub-Saharan Africa representative. She previously worked for six years as a journalist with the Kenya-based Nation Media Group, covering a variety of beats for the Business Daily and Daily Nation newspapers. Mumo has a bachelor’s degree from the United States International University in Nairobi and a master’s degree jointly awarded by Aarhus University and the University of Hamburg.
William Horsley
Centre for Freedom of the Media’s (CFOM) Panel Moderator
William Horsley reported on major international events across Asia and Europe for many years as a foreign correspondent for BBC TV and Radio News. As international director of the University of Sheffield’s Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM) since 2008 he is in the forefront of worldwide efforts to protect media freedom and the safety of journalists against multiple threats in the digital age. In response to a rise in violent attacks and the state capture of media outlets in Eastern and Western Europe he helped to establish the Europe-wide early warning system known as the Council of Europe Platform for the protection and safety of journalists. He writes the international director’s blog on the CFOM website and is the author of the OSCE Safety of Journalists Guidebook (2020) and co-author of the UNESCO Issue Brief on Freedom of Expression and the Safety of Foreign Correspondents (July 2021).
Dr Tina Burrett
Centre for Freedom of the Media’s (CFOM) Panel.
State controls over the digital space in Russia: implications for news media
Dr Tina Burrett is Associate Professor of Political Science at Sophia University, Japan and Visiting Fellow at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. Her recent publications on Russia include ‘Litvinenko and Skripal Compared: Hyper-Partisanship and the Russian Media’, The Routledge Companion to Political Journalism (2021), ‘Evaluating Putin’s Propaganda Performance 2000–2018’, Sage Propaganda Handbook (2020) and ‘Charting Putin’s Shifting Populism in the Russian Media 2000- 2020’ Politics and Governance’ (2020). She is also author of Television and Presidential Power in Putin’s Russia (Routledge 2013) and editor of Press Freedom in Contemporary Asia (Routledge 2019, with Jeff Kingston). She writes regularly for the New Internationalist and The Japan Times and has worked in the UK, Japanese and Canadian parliaments.
Barbara Trionfi
Centre for Freedom of the Media’s (CFOM) Panel.
State controls on the digital space and the watchdog role of the media
Barbara Trionfi is Executive Director at IPI. She joined the organisation in 2000, as a press freedom adviser for the Asia-Pacific region, where she had previously studied and worked for over four years, carrying out research in the field of human rights and freedom of expression. Later, as press freedom manager, she oversaw IPI’s global press freedom monitoring and coordinated IPI’s global advocacy. With an academic background in international relations and human rights, Barbara has taught courses at Webster University, Vienna in Media Ethics, Media Literacy and Cultural Diversity and the Media.
Maria Ordzhonikidze
Tips for cybersecurity
Maria Ordzhonikidze is a Director of the Justice for Journalists Foundation. Over the course of her international career, Ms Ordzhonikidze has designed and managed a number of public awareness, advocacy, human rights and crisis management campaigns. As a Secretary General of the EU-Russia Centre she oversaw its research and lobbying efforts in Brussels and wider Europe. She ran the international litigation communication and advocacy campaign as the Head of Khodorkovsky Press Center in Russia. As visiting professor in International Communications at Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia, she conducted training programmes for corporations, NGOs and individuals. Ms Ordzhonikidze has authored research and articles and regularly speaks on subjects including sociological and political trends, international relations, freedom of speech and global security. She holds an MA in Sociology from the Moscow State University and an MA in Intelligence and Security from the London Brunel University.
Dr Janet Harris
Media freedom and the safety of journalists in times of conflict
Dr Janet Harris is a nominated documentary producer/director, having worked for many years at the BBC and as a freelancer with experience of working in Iraq, in war and in post war. She filmed in Iraq as an embedded director with the British military for the BBC series Soldier, Husband, Daughter Dad (2005), and for the BBC series Fighting the War (2003). She also worked in post conflict Iraq for the series Saddam’s Iraq for ITV & Middle East Broadcasting (2004). Janet was last in Iraq in 2013 to make a documentary for the 10 th anniversary of the invasion of Iraq for the BBC This World strand, ‘Did my son die in Vain’ (2014). She obtained a PhD from Cardiff University in 2012 and now lectures in Documentary and International Journalism at Cardiff University. Janet’s research interests include documentary, Journalism, War, Iraq, and Conflict reporting. Janet Harris is co-author of the book, Reporting war and conflict, amongst others.
Rachael Jolley
Media freedom, anonymity and social media
Rachael Jolley is an award-winning editor and journalist and a Research Fellow at CFOM. Her work has brought international acclaim including the Hermann Kesten prize, the British Society of Magazine Editors’ specialist editor of the year, Telegraph young science writer of the year (merit award) and the Grand Apex award 2017. Until 2020 she was the editor- in-chief of the award-winning magazine Index on Censorship for seven years, where she worked with writers including Amartya Sen, Margaret Atwood and Ngugi wa Thiong’o. She was a board member of the US Press Freedom Tracker. She is also a guest lecturer at the Reuters Institute in Journalism at Oxford, and at journalism schools at Cardiff, Liverpool John Moores and Nottingham Trent universities. Appearances on radio and TV include Channel 4 News, BBC Today, BBC World, LBC, Monocle, and Project Censored radio show (US). She also curated a series on NPR radio on freedom of expression.