National laws in many of the 56 Commonwealth member countries severely impede press freedom and unduly restrict the right to freedom of expression. That is the damning finding of a research report published on 9 September 2025 by the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI), the Commonwealth Journalists Association (CJA), and the Commonwealth Lawyers Association.| The Centre for Freedom of the Media
I began researching artificial intelligence in digital journalism in 2021. Initially, my research focused on understanding which journalistic tasks were being automated through AI in news production and to what extent journalists were involved in these automation processes. A recurrent question driving my research is whether newsroom AI tools can be purposefully designed, rather than merely implemented, to embody core ethical and journalistic values from the outset. This also involves examini...| The Centre for Freedom of the Media
‘The Bible is kept locked up, the way people once kept tea locked up, so the servants wouldn’t steal it. It is an incendiary device: who knows what we’d made of it if we ever got our hands on it?’ (Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale)| The Centre for Freedom of the Media
When an AI-generated image of an explosion near the Pentagon circulated online in 2023, the global media flinched. Financial markets trembled, social media erupted, and newsrooms scrambled to verify the source. It was not just another hoax—it was a warning flare for journalism. We have entered an era where the very fabric of visual evidence is unravelling.| The Centre for Freedom of the Media
