Panel Event: The Future of Press Freedom
Event details
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Thursday 4 December 2025 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm
Online
Description
Across the world, there are threats to press freedom, including restrictive legislation, the development of AI, financial constraints, erosion of public trust and populist governments attempting to silence media outlets. Journalism has had to adapt to these challenges to try and find a way to survive. In the United States, the protection from the First Amendment has been challenged and, as our speakers state, ‘The American press is facing a perilous moment’.
In this panel event organised by the Centre for Freedom of the Media, our speakers discuss the current state of press freedom in the US, highlighting the evolving threats to the function of a press in a democratic society and what this means for the First Amendment protection. This panel event focuses on the recently edited volume by RonNell Andersen Jones and Sonja R. West: ‘The Future of Press Freedom: Democracy, Law, and the News in Changing Time’. We will examine the threats the press are facing and also address questions of how the press can continue to function in these challenging times that they are facing.
Panellists: Professor RonNell Andersen Jones, Professor Sonja R. West and Professor Christina Koningisor.