The Consultative Network of the Media Freedom Coalition, created in January 2020, is a group of national, regional and international organisations that in collaboration with a much broader set of civil society groups, voluntarily provides advice to the MFC on the Coalition’s work and facilitates selection of cases that it believes require State intervention.
The key objectives of the Consultative Network (CN) are:
- To present cases to the MFC for action – both cases of concern in countries where media freedom is at particular risk and cases of individual journalists or media outlets under threat. This includes sharing information on the situation and providing recommendations on what the MFC can do to address it;
- To offer advice on present and future issues within media freedom and media development, including speaking at MFC events, and channelling suggestions from CSOs, media, journalists’ associations, and others to inform the MFC membership;
- To monitor the work of the coalition and provide inputs on the day-to-day and strategic work of the MFC.
Co-Chairs
ARTICLE 19, Silvia Chocarro (Co-chair)
Public Media Alliance, Sally-Ann Wilson
Media Action Nepal (MAN), Laxman Datt Pant (Co-chair)
Members
ARTICLE 19, Silvia Chocarro (Co-chair)
Association for International Broadcasting, Thomas Wragg
Committee to Protect Journalists, Gypsy Guillen Kaiser
DW Akademie, Jan Lublinski
FLIP, Jonathan Bock
IFEX, Rachael Kay (Co-chair)
International Federation of Journalists, Jeremy Dear
International Media Support, Jesper Højberg
International Press Institute, Amy Brouillette
Internews, Abdurahman Sharif
Pakistan Press Foundation, Owais Aslam Ali
Public Media Alliance, Sally-Ann Wilson
Free Press Unlimited (FPU), Leon Willems
WAN-IFRA, Andrew Heslop
Reporters without Borders, Antoine Bernard
Maharat Foundation, Roula Mikhael
Media Monitoring Africa (MMA), William Bird
South East European Network for Professionalization of Media (SEENPM), Tihomir Loza
Media Action Nepal (MAN), Laxman Datt Pant (Co-chair)
Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD), Tom Law
MediaVoice/MCERC, Mariam Gersamia
Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression, Yara Bader
