Seminar: Journalism in the age of far-right populism – Resisting hostility, surveillance, and censorship

ICSJ FSV UK invites you to the seminar Journalism in the Age of Far-Right Populism – Resisting Hostility, Surveillance and Censorship. The seminar is hosted by Alice Němcová Tejkalová, introduction by Carlo Berti.

Speakers:

• Renate Schroeder: Director of the European Federation of Journalists
• Francesco Cancellato: Investigative journalist and Editor-in-Chief of Fanpage.it
• Eva Simon: The Civil Liberties Union for Europe (Liberties)

The seminar will explore the present and future of journalism in a political context in which far-right populist forces are gaining increasing support and political power. It will examine the challenges facing journalism, and the tools available to journalists and newsrooms to tackle an increasingly hostile political climate, a rise in threats and violence, and increasingly explicit attempts at legal intimidation, censorship and surveillance. The focus will be particularly on the European dimension, reflecting also on EU regulations for the defence of press freedom, and on case studies such as Italy and Hungary.

Three guests will engage in dialogue with one another and with the audience: Renate Schroeder, Director of the European Federation of Journalists; Francesco Cancellato, an investigative Italian journalist and author of two recent books on the European far right and digital surveillance; and Eva Simon, a member of Liberties, a human rights lawyer, and expert on media freedom and Hungary.

Time and venue: April 21, 2026 – 9.30 to 11 am – Hollar Building Room 215 - Faculty of Social Sciences - Smetanovo nábřeží 6, 110 00, Prague 1

Other information: The seminar will be held in English. For organizational reasons, we kindly ask you to register via this link.

This seminar is part of the Project “MSCA Fellowships CZ – UK2”, Reg. nu. CZ.02.01.01/00/22_010/0008115, funded through the OPJAK program.