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Ongoing and Submitted Projects in the Field of Media and Freedom of Expression Online and Offline: From 1 May 2017 to 30 September 2017
Council of Europe (2017), 41 pp.
"Twelve cooperation projects with external funding (voluntary contribution or jointly funded by the European Union) are currently underway amounting to 7 429 398 Euros in all. Some activities are also financed by the ordinary budget of the Council of Europe. Approximately 153 activities were organis
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Der neue Fischer Weltalmanach 2018: Schwerpunkt Pressefreiheit
Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag (2017), 736 pp.
Negotiating the Boundaries of News Reporting: Journalists’ Strategies to Access and Report Political Information in China
MedieKultur: Journal of Media and Communication Research, volume 33, issue 62 (2017), pp. 35-51
"As Chinese politicians hold the power to control the dissemination of political information, beat journalists must guard their relationship with the authorities to expand the boundaries of news reporting; that is, to gain more access to political information and report more sensitive news. What rem
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The Zambian Press Freedom Conundrum: Reluctance Rather Than Resilience
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 9, issue 1 (2017), pp. 129-144
"As different governments have assumed power in Zambia since the democratic tide that swept across Africa in the early 1990s, the conundrum of a free press continues to complicate governance and journalistic practices. This study investigated how members of Parliament (MPs) felt about press freedom.
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Cambodia: The Independent Press in Ruins
Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2017), 26 pp.
Journalists Not Terrorists: In Cameroon, Anti-Terror Legislation is Used to Silence Critics and Suppress Dissent
New York: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (2017), 17 pp.
"In 2014, Cameroon enacted a broad anti-terror law as part of its effort to counter the extremist group Boko Haram, but authorities are using it to arrest and threaten local journalists who report on the militants or unrest in the country’s English-speaking regions. A presidential decree in August
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Violence, co-optation and corruption: Risks for the exercise of journalism and freedom of expression in Mexico
In: Beyond the Drug War in Mexico: Human Rights, the Public Sphere and Justice
London; New York: Routledge (2017), pp. 97-110
"Freedom of expression is a cornerstone of democratic society and essential for the formation of an informed public opinion. A society that is not well informed is never totally free. This chapter examines the interplay of external and internal risks on press freedom in five Mexican states. The conc
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Canaries in a coal-mine? What the killings of journalists tell us about future repression
Journal of Peace Research, volume 54, issue 2 (2017), pp. 157-174
"[...] To test the argument whether the killing of journalists is a precursor to increasing repression, we introduce a new global dataset on killings of journalists between 2002 and 2013 that uses three different sources that track such events across the world. The new data show that mostly local jo
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Expanding influences research to insecure democracies: How violence, public insecurity, economic inequality and uneven democratic performance shape journalists' perceived work environments
Journalism Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (2017), pp. 645-665
"Democracies with sharp violence and public insecurity have proliferated in recent decades, with many also featuring extreme economic inequality. These conditions have not been explicitly considered in comparative research on journalists' work environments, an omission that may obscure important rea
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Freedom of Expression and Violence Against Journalists
Lex ET Scientia International Journal (LESIJ), volume 2 (2017), pp. 118-135
"This study will contain an analysis on the international and regional standards in the field of freedom of expression, as stipulated in the United Nations conventions and in the European Convention of Human Rights. Further we will establish a link between the breach of the freedom of expression whe
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Freedom on the Net 2017: Manipulating Social Media to Undermine Democracy
Deep Insights
Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2017), 1060 pp.
"Governments around the world have dramatically increased their efforts to manipulate information on social media over the past year. The Chinese and Russian regimes pioneered the use of surreptitious methods to distort online discussions and suppress dissent more than a decade ago, but the practice
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Assaults against Journalists: We see the tip of the iceberg
In: The Assault on Journalism. Building Knowledge to Protect Freedom of Expression
Göteborg: Nordicom (2017), pp. 119-128
"The summarised reports in this chapter show that the scope of safety and sacrifice is far greater than each actor alone or their sum can account for. Although the discussion did not offer an investigation into the USA and other mature democracies, it is clear from the survey in the European territo
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Disrupting the disruption: A key role for academics in the protection of freedom of expression
Media Asia, volume 44 (2017), pp. 2-7
"Agnes Callamard argues that academics have unique responsibilities in a dark era of violence." (Abstract)
Journalists Under Pressure: Unwarranted Interference, Fear and Self-Censorship in Europe
Strasbourg: Council of Europe (2017), 84 pp.
"A survey published by the Council of Europe, based on a sample of 940 journalists reporting from the 47 Council of Europe member states and Belarus, shows that journalists in Europe are often exposed to serious unwarranted interference in their work, including intimidation and violence. As a conseq
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Expanding Influences Research to Insecure Democracies: How Violence, Public Insecurity, Economic Inequality and Uneven Democratic Performance Shape Journalists’ Perceived Work Environments
Journalism Studies, volume 18, issue 5 (2017), pp. 645-665
"Democracies with sharp violence and public insecurity have proliferated in recent decades, with many also featuring extreme economic inequality. These conditions have not been explicitly considered in comparative research on journalists’ work environments, an omission that may obscure important r
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Atentar contra uno es atentar contra todos: Iniciativas exitosas para proteger a los periodistas y combatir la impunidad
Deep Insights
Paris: UNESCO (2017), 98 pp.
"Este informe presenta una selección de las formas innovadoras y exitosas por las cuales los medios de comunicación, sus profesionales y las organizaciones sociales se están agrupando para mejorar la seguridad de los periodistas. Estos son casos de personas que han tomado la iniciativa, en nombre
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Unwarranted Interference, Fear and Self-censorship among Journalists in Council of Europe Member States
In: The Assault on Journalism. Building Knowledge to Protect Freedom of Expression
Göteborg: Nordicom (2017), pp. 221-226
"Journalists may be exposed to a number of risk factors for unwarranted interference. This is often compounded by a culture of impunity. The extent of unwarranted interference, the experience of fear associated with such interference, and the consequent possibility of self-censorship among journalis
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Freedom of Speech in Russia: Politics and Media from Gorbachev to Putin
London; New York: Routledge (2017), viii, 363 pp.
"This book traces the life of free speech in Russia from the final years of the Soviet Union to the present. It shows how long-cherished hopes for an open society in which people would speak freely and tell truth to power fared under Gorbachev’s glasnost; how free speech was a real, if fractured,
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New Fronts, Brave Voices: Press Freedom in South Asia 2016-17
New Delhi: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Asia-Pacific; South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) (2017), 113 pp.
"South Asia is a region of enormous contrasts, but from the vastness of India to tiny and placid Bhutan, journalism faces several problems in common. The safety situation has improved in some of the countries that were racked by internal strife, but journalists remain at acute risk in India and Paki
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In the Service of Power: Media Capture and the Threat to Democracy
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2017), 162 pp.
"In this volume of essays edited by Anya Schiffrin, media capture is shown to be a growing phenomenon linked both to the resurgence of authoritarian governments as well as to the structural weaknesses presently afflicting media markets. In this environment, political figures and economic elites are
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