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Will the Palestinian Press Survive Corona Virus? The Media in Light of Corona Crisis Difficulties and Challenges
Ramallah: Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) (2020), 33 pp.
"A quick review of the media status in Palestine indicates that the restrictions and general measures that accompanied the spread of the epidemic will lead to the suspension of many independent/private media outlets, as a result of the interruption of their main source of income, represented in the
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Measuring Global Media Freedom: The Media Freedom Analyzer as a New Assessment Tool
Wiesbaden: Springer VS (2020), xv, 252 pp.
"The Media Freedom Analyzer developed by Laura Schneider is a new way to measure global media freedom in a more objective, unbiased and transparent way. Grounded in the opinions of around 1000 experts from 126 countries, the index is the first empirically validated tool to assess free and independen
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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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Free Vs. False: Namibia’s Changing Media Landscape Presents Tough Choices for Citizens
Afrobarometer (2020), 10 pp.
"Most adult Namibians own mobile phones (88%) and radios (67%). Four in 10 (40%) own television sets, and one in four (25%) own computers. Daily Internet use has multiplied over the past decade, increasing from 5% in 2008 to 28% in 2019. But more than four in 10 Namibians (44%) still “never” use
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Kuba: Keine Besserung in Sicht. Trotz der Verfassungsreform von 2018 bleiben die Grundrechte stark eingeschränkt
Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2020), 5 pp.
"Mit einer Reform 2018 wurden die Grundrechte in der kubanischen Verfassung stärker verankert, ein zarter Hoffnungsschimmer für die Bevölkerung. Doch in der Praxis sind die Kubaner noch immer stark eingeschränkt. Besonders die Meinungs- und Versammlungsfreiheit sind erheblich limitiert und werde
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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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Meinungsfreiheit
welt-sichten, issue 2 (2020), pp. 12-31
How Free is Ghana’s Media?
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2020), 15 pp.
Nosotros, Colombia ... Comunicación, paz y (pos)conflicto
Chía: Universidad de La Sabana; Editorial EAFIT (2019), 279 pp.
"La paz parece haber sido esquiva en la historia de Colombia. Los vaivenes en los procesos de negociación, las promesas incumplidas y la polarización política han hecho de Colombia una nación en un estado de continua crisis y que, a pesar de sí misma —retomando la vieja frase de Bushnell— h
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Per Diem Payments as a form of Censorship and Control: The Case of Guinea-Bissau’s Journalism
Journalism Studies, volume 20, issue 16 (2019), pp. 2349-2365
"This article discusses the habit of politicians paying journalists per diem rates in exchange for media coverage. Although bribery and money incentives have been studied as practices that compromise the ethics of journalism in several African countries, this paper researches Guinea-Bissau as an exa
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Media Influence Matrix: Pakistan. Technology, Public Sphere and Journalism
Budapest: Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2019), 20 pp.
"With particularly low internet penetration rates, intense state censorship and heavy Chinese investment, Pakistan presents elements of an authoritarian internet culture where surveillance is a barely-questioned norm, unless probed by civil society organizations or journalists. Social media giants s
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Media Sustainability Index 2019: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Sri Lanka
Washington, DC: IREX (2019), 22 pp.
"Even with a backdrop of political instability, Sri Lanka’s overall 2019 MSI score remained at 1.80, the same as it was the last time the study was conducted in 2017. This year, the Freedom of Speech objective just crossed the threshold into the near sustainable category due to continued improveme
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Media Sustainability Index 2019: Kosovo
Washington, DC: IREX (2019), 22 pp.
"Kosovo’s overall score for the MSI dropped slightly this year, in comparison to its overall score of 2.56 in the previous year’s study. Despite this decline, Kosovo remains in the “near sustainability” classification. The 2019 chapter for Kosovo shows drops in the scores for the freedom of
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Media Ownership Monitor Egypt
Reporters Without Borders (2019), 687 pp.
"A hostile takeover of Egypt’s media is under way, leaving the influence on public opinion to be controlled by the state, the secret services and a few wealthy owners loyal to the regime and with close ties to the former president Hosni Mubarak. In a move to gain influence over the State-owned med
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La emboscada: Asesinato y memoria de cuatro periodistas holandeses en El Salvador
San Salvador: Fundación Comunicándonos (2019), xxiv, 228 pp.
"Este libro, como pocos, cuenta la historia de todo aquello que el periodismo debería ser y, al mismo tiempo, de todas sus debilidades. Cuatro valientes guerreros de la libertad de expresión, ejerciendo su función fundamental de lanzar luz sobre graves violaciones de derechos humanos, son permane
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