Media Freedom in the Commonwealth

The absence of the Commonwealth from the debate on the growing number of attacks on journalists and other issues around media freedom, paralleled by the rising use of repressive legislation and the courts, is being questioned. It contrasts with the activism of UN agencies and non-governmental organisations in addressing these trends of harassment and persecution. In this article, two members of the Commonwealth Journalists Association’s Media Freedom Committee, David Page and William Horsley, set out the case for the Commonwealth to give priority to tackling the contemporary assault on press freedom, and describe how an expert working group of six professional associations has proposed a comprehensive set of Commonwealth principles on the role of the media in good governance ahead of the London Summit

Commonwealth · Corporate governance · Economics · Freedom of information · Freedom of the press · Geography · Harassment · Legislation · Management · Mandate · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Summit · Commonwealth, Australian Politics and Federalism · Law · Public Administration