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Nicht selbst zur Nachricht werden: Journalisten leben in Honduras gefährlich
Blickpunkt Lateinamerika (Adveniat), issue 2 (2020), pp. 6-11
"Für Journalisten gehört Honduras zu den gefährlichsten Ländern der Welt. Das gilt besonders für diejenigen, die sich für Menschenrechte und Demokratie einsetzen, wie die Mitarbeiter von Radio Progreso, eines der letzten unabhängigen Medien des Landes. Jeden Tag schweben sie in Lebensgefahr."
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Journalism and self-censorship in the insecure democracies of Central America
"This chapter focuses on the context of violence and political polarization in three Central American countries: Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador, and analyses how these conditions negatively affect press freedom and the practice of journalism. The author argues that the notion of “insecure dem
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On media censorship, freedom of expression and the risks of journalism in Mexico
Information Development, volume 35, issue 4 (2019), pp. 666-670
"We present a classification of the types of censorship of media to frame the various issues that journalism and freedom of expression face in Mexico, which mainly include the role of the State in preventing or enforcing censorship, the monopoly of a few corporate groups that control most of the mas
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Media Sustainability Index 2020: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Sri Lanka
Washington, DC: IREX (2019), 22 pp.
"The year 2019 was challenging for Sri Lanka, with the Easter Sunday Attacks and the subsequent anti-Muslim riots paralyzing the country and the economy. After the Easter Sunday attacks, the first terrorist attacks on Sri Lankan soil in a decade, it was expected that the media would play a responsib
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Endangered Voices: Attack on Freedom of Expression in Nigeria
London: Amnesty International (2019), 40 pp.
African Media Barometer: Tanzania 2019
Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2019), 59 pp.
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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State of Internet Freedom in Africa 2019: Mapping Trends in Government Internet Controls, 1999-2019
Kampala: CIPESA (2019), 47 pp.
"The study has found that African countries have broadened the range of measures that govern the use of digital communications including the internet. The implementation of oppressive laws and regulations is on the rise in the countries under review. It is evident that countries are using legislatio
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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.
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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Press Freedom and the Global State of Democracy Indices
Stockholm: International IDEA (2019), 11 pp.
"Significant advances in Freedom of Expression and Media Integrity, as measured in the GSoD Indices, have been achieved in the last four decades. Citizens around the world are today more able to enjoy the freedom to openly discuss political issues, and to have access to a diverse and critical media,
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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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Western Sahara: A Desert for Journalists
Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2019), 34 pp.
"On 26 February 1976, after almost a century of colonization, Spain withdrew from Western Sahara, throwing the territory wide open for Moroccan civil and military occupation and abandoning tens of thousands Sahrawis to their fate. More than four decades later, the Western Sahara, officially the last
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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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Freedom and the Media: A Downward Spiral
Freedom House (2019), 30 pp.
"According to Freedom House’s Freedom in the World data, media freedom has been deteriorating around the world over the past decade, with new forms of repression taking hold in open societies and authoritarian states alike. The trend is most acute in Europe, previously a bastion of well-establishe
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African Media Barometer: Nigeria 2019
Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2019), 60 pp.
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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An Investigation into State Suppression of Freedom of Expression in Lesotho
IJCIRAS, volume 2, issue 2 (2019), pp. 75-82
"The constitution of Lesotho gives assurance to freedom of expression which is supposed to protect the rights of journalists in the day to day dispensation of their duties. The situation on the ground however shows the exact opposite. Recent history can show assassination attempts on practicing jour
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