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Media Freedom in South Africa Today: Unravelling Multifarious Threats toward a Research and Advocacy Response
Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research, volume 46, issue 3 (2020), pp. 1-19
"This article assesses the multiple factors which are barriers to media freedom in South Africa. These include crises of financial sustainability of the media sector which have recently been compounded by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic; widespread job losses in journalism; and harassment and phy
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Putting lives in danger? Tinker, tailor, journalist, spy: The use of journalistic cover
Journalism, volume 21, issue 10 (2020), pp. 1539-1555
"The Anglo-American intelligence agencies' use of journalists as spies or propagandists and the practice of providing intelligence agents in the field with journalistic cover have been a source of controversy for many decades. This article examines the extent to which these covert practices have tak
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A Roadmap to Protect Press Freedom During the Reconciliation Process
Afghan Journalists Safety Committee (AJSC) (2020), 8 pp.
"This paper is written for the purpose of creating a roadmap to support press freedom and freedom of expression in the Afghan reconciliation process. Afghan Journalist Safety Committee (AJSC) prepared the document in collaboration with Afghan media representatives. The sole purpose of the roadmap is
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Disonancia: Voces en disputa
México, DF: Article 19 (2020), 270 pp.
Practices of Self-Censorship Among Nepali Journalists
In: Handbook of Research on Combating Threats to Media Freedom and Journalist Safety
Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2020), pp. 72-82
"Although Nepal has entered a new era of democracy and press freedom since 2006, self-censorship still exists in the reporting/editing of many Nepali journalists. Nepal has more than 100 years of press history, most of it has faced pressure from the government if not censorship. Drawing upon intervi
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Myanmar: Censorship Harms COVID-19 Response
London: Amnesty International (2020), 4 pp.
"The Myanmar authorities should immediately lift curbs on the free flow of information to at-risk communities; ensure journalists, human rights defenders and activists can operate freely and without any harassment, intimidation, arrest, prosecution and imprisonment; and encourage rather than threate
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Politizar la tecnología: Radios comunitarias y derecho a la comunicación en los territorios digitales
Buenos Aires: Ediciones del Jinete Insomne (2020), 206 pp.
"Como se podrá observar en cada una de las páginas del texto, en realidad las tecnologías están diseñadas para incrementar los mecanismos de penetración del capitalismo y otras formas de dominación en cada una de las esferas de nuestras vidas. En este sentido, es menester observar las relacio
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How Free is Too Free? Across Africa, Media Freedom is on the Defensive
Deep Insights
Cape Town: Afrobarometer (2019), 34 pp.
"Popular support for media freedom continues to decline, dropping to below half (47%) of respondents across 34 countries. More Africans (49%) now say governments should have the right to prevent publications they consider harmful. Twenty-five of 31 countries tracked since 2011 experienced declines i
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#journodefender: Turning Trolling Against Journalists on its Head
Kalmar: Fojo Media Institute (2019), 83 pp.
"This report describes and analyses how online propaganda against journalists across the world - through hate, harassment, threats and fabricated news – undermines independent reporting, sows doubt among the public and makes journalists, in particular female journalists, open for online attacks an
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Afghan journalists in a balancing act: Coping with deteriorating safety
Conflict & Communication Online, volume 18, issue 1 (2019), 16 pp.
"Afghan journalists have been experiencing a deteriorating situation, due to a multitude of threats. They operate in a situation of low popular literacy, as well as low media literacy. Threats from Taliban and other insurgents cause many journalists to live in constant fear. This article is based on
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Social Media Platforms and Content Exposure: How to Restore Users’ Control
Competition and Regulation in Network Industries, volume 20, issue 1 (2019), pp. 86-110
"Social media platforms have become themain channel for people to communicate, access information and share content. A handful of giant platforms dominate the markets and, through a complex typology of conducts, are able to strongly affect users’ exposure to content, violating their privacy, as we
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Supporting Safety of Journalists in Afghanistan: An Assessment Based on UNESCO's Journalists' Safety Indicators
Paris: UNESCO; International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) (2019), 129 pp.
"This report maps threats against journalists in Afghanistan between January and December 2017. Divided into five key indicator categories, the report first provides an overview of the safety situation of journalists in Afghanistan; followed by the discussion of the roles and responses of State and
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El silencio no es opción: Barcelona protege a periodistas de México
Barcelona: Asociación por la Paz y los Derechos Humanos (2019), 114 pp.
Implications of AI-Driven Tools in the Media for Freedom of Expression
Institute for Information Law (2019), 39 pp.
"Based on an analysis of the use of AI-driven tools in the light of Article 10 EHCR, this report highlights a number of points for attention and the need for further initiatives. In particular, we signal that:
- There is an important role for member States to ensure that access to innovative technol
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Fighting Words: Journalism Under Assault in Central and Eastern Europe
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 30 pp.
"To understand the situation and examine what can be done to address it, we sent out a questionnaire to journalists in 16 countries in the region, asking them about the state of press freedom and the areas in which they felt their ability to work was being curtailed. We also asked them about sources
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Freedom on the Net 2019: The Crisis of Social Media
Deep Insights
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2019), 32 pp.
"Social media allow ordinary people, civic groups, and journalists to reach a vast audience at little or no cost, but they have also provided an extremely useful and inexpensive platform for malign influence operations by foreign and domestic actors alike. Political leaders employed individuals to s
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Journalismus in Burundi: Erfahrungswelten in Konflikt und Transformation
Wiesbaden: Springer (2019), xvii, 469 pp.
"Das Buch befasst sich mit der Rolle von Medien in einem politischen Ausnahmezustand. Bettina Haasen hat in Burundi Journalistinnen und Journalisten zu ihrem beruflichen Rollenselbstverständnis befragt und diese Aussagen unter Berücksichtigung ihrer sozialen Herkunft und den Zielen der internation
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