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Strengthening safety and security resources for visual storytellers and journalists. A scoping study
Deep Insights
International Resource for Impact and Storytelling (IRIS); Ford Foundation (2022), iv, 114 pp.
"With attacks against storytellers increasing year-on-year, concern has grown about the lack of safety and security resources available to them. This is the focus of our study. Through a series of 120 interviews with artists, filmmakers, journalists, funders, activists, academics and others, along w
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What Will it Take for Newsroom Leaders to Support and Defend Journalists?
Journalism & Communication Monographs, volume 24, issue 3 (2022), pp. 229–232
Media and Uncertainty. Understanding the Institutional Precarity of Journalism: A Macro Approach to the Civil Diminishment of Journalism
International Journal of Communication, volume 16 (2022), pp. 3885-3897
"This article develops a conceptual framework for understanding risk to journalism, more specifically, risk to the standing of journalism as a civil institution generated by macro-level state and market forces of civil diminishment. While the state and market arguably belong to the most well-studied
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Public violence against journalists and media
Sur le Journalisme, About Journalism, Sobre Jornalismo, volume 10, issue 1 (2021), pp. 14-17
"Violence against journalists is nothing new. It has been around in various iterations for decades: harsh criticism of the profession, media headquarters ransacked and destroyed, journalists considered bargaining chips or a means to apply pressure during periods of conflict, or during political, eco
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Safe. Strong. Viable. The Symbiosis Between Media Safety and Media Viability
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2021), 41 pp.
"The interviews and the analyses by the experts show that: –– Quality content increases safety. The editors interviewed for this publication confirm that fair and balanced journalism, which clearly distinguishes between facts and opinion and treats the people at the center of the story with resp
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Freedom of Expression and the Safety of Foreign Correspondents: Trends, Challenges and Responses
Paris: UNESCO (2021), 16 pp.
"There is a worldwide increase in hostility against journalists who report for external audiences, which especially impedes reporting from conflict areas and on important social and political matters. Some political leaders have sought to discredit and delegitimize both journalists from abroad and l
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Understanding Journalist Killings
Journal of Politics, volume 83, issue 4 (2021), pp. 1216–1228
"Why do state authorities murder journalists? We show that the majority of journalists are killed in democracies and present an argument that focuses on institutional differences between democratic states. In democracies, journalists will most likely be targeted by local state authorities that have
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Journalism's sharp end: Fatal materiality and the algorithms of profit and political extremism
Observatorio (OBS*) Journal, volume 15, issue 2 (2021), pp. 139-156
"This conceptual paper focusses on two fronts forming a broad assault on journalism, extending from more autocratic settings to include liberal democracies, and leading to what is now widely perceived as a crisis in news. We analyze these two attacks by presenting a framework integrating their sourc
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Handbook of Research on Discrimination, Gender Disparity, and Safety Risks in Journalism
Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2021), xxiv, 459 pp.
"Today, a variety of gender-based threats and discrimination continue to characterize journalism. Both male and female journalists are prone to online and offline threats, casual stereotypes in their routine work, and discrimination (especially in terms of job opportunities, promotion, and pay-scale
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The Press-safety Paradox of Democracies: Regime-type Duration and Journalist Killings
Foreign Policy Analysis, volume 17, issue 1, oraa007 (2021), [no pag.]
"Previous research finds that journalist killings are more likely to occur in democracies rather than non-democracies. While these results provide an important first step in exploring regime type's effect on journalist's safety, they assume no variation in how long countries have remained a regime t
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Media Control and Post-Truth Communication
"The erosion of media freedom is a growing phenomenon. Worldwide, journalists face obstruction, hostility, and violence as powerful political and private actors exercise a repressive influence on the media system. Citing historical and contemporary cases from different geographic regions, this chapt
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Journalist Safety and Self-Censorship
Deep Insights
London; New York: Routledge (2021), viii, 210 pp.
"This book explores the relationship between the safety of journalists and self-censorship practices around the world, including local case studies and regional and international perspectives. Bringing together scholars and practitioners from around the globe, Journalist Safety and Self-Censorship p
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Is There a Global Norm for the Protection of Journalists’ Sources?
In: Regardless of Frontiers: Global Freedom of Expression in a Troubled World
New York: Colombia University Press (2021), pp. 116-142
"People frequently provide journalists with information to report to the public. Some don't want their identity revealed. This chapter is about the rules that protect journalists from being compelled to reveal the identities of such people. It examines wether there is a global norm that journalists'
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Medium-Specific Threats for Journalists: Examples from Philippines, Afghanistan and Venezuela
Journalism Practice, volume 5, issue 1 (2021), pp. 80-98
"Between 2012 and 2016, UNESCO registered 530 deaths of journalists. They also published a statistic showing that television journalists were the most killed, followed by print media, radio and online journalists. Hinted in this statistics is the need to understand the relationship between the mediu
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Shared Responsibility: Safeguarding Press Freedom in Perilous Times. Lessons Learned and New Approaches to Media Safety
Deep Insights
Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2020), 91 pp.
"This report identifies five major challenges for developing national plans for safety of journalists and how stakeholders are tackling them. The points addressed concern gaining engagement around safety of journalists by state actors, uniting and focusing efforts of disparate stakeholders into a du
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Protecting the Safety of Journalists, Protecting Freedom of Expression: A Handbook for EU Delegations
Key Guides
Brussels: Media4Democracy (2020), 102 pp.
"This Handbook, which provides non-compulsory technical guidance to EU Delegations, aims to provide tools and hands-on examples to support them in implementing the the 2014 'EU Human Rights Guidelines on Freedom of Expression Online and Offline' and in taking actions to support the safety and securi
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Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists: Annual Report, 2019
Paris: UNESCO (2020), 163 pp.
"This progress report presents the main findings and achievements of a self-evaluation exercise conducted by the responsible UNESCO project officers at Headquarters and in the relevant Field Offices." (Page 3)
Introduction: Rethinking Safety of Journalists
Media and Communication, volume 8, issue 1 (2020), pp. 1-4
"The introductory chapter to the thematic issue, entitled "Rethinking Safety of Journalists," shows how promoting the safety of journalists is closely related to press freedom. It presents the articles of the thematic issue and highlights how the safety of journalists is no longer a concern of indiv
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