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Cambodia: The Independent Press in Ruins
Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2017), 26 pp.
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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Media Sustainability Index 2017: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Europe and Eurasia
Washington, DC: IREX (2017), xx, 290 pp.
"While a few much-needed improvements can be reported for the 2017 Europe & Eurasia Media Sustainability Index (MSI), overall there are signs of continued and worsening challenges facing those who wish to create and support a vibrant information system in the 21 countries studied in this volume [...
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Media Sustainability Index 2017: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in Sri Lanka
Washington, DC: IREX (2017), v, 25 pp.
"Despite political and economic progress, the media face increasing political influence and financial instability that threaten the future. This year panelists affirmed the current financial crisis that the media industry is facing. They noted its impact on media freedom and progress, as it relates
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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)
Job Autonomy: How Kenyan Newspeople Perceive their Journalistic Latitudes
African Journalism Studies, volume 38, issue 2 (2017), pp. 90-114
"National in scope, this survey of Kenyan journalists conducted in 2012–2013 (n = 504) examines job autonomy in news selection decisions, media freedom and predictors of journalistic autonomy. The research also investigates the relationship between Kenya’s media freedom and journalistic autonomy
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European and International Media Law
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2017), lxx, 583 pp.
"This book is the first to incorporate current academic literature on European, transnational, and international media law into a comprehensive overview intended primarily for students. It introduces the legal framework for globalised communication via mass media, and considers the transformative ef
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The Cost of Truth Telling in India: Reporting in the Context of Intolerance
In: The Assault on Journalism. Building Knowledge to Protect Freedom of Expression
Göteborg: Nordicom (2017), pp. 87-92
"I would like to begin by stating the obvious. Any way forward has to be based on a clear understanding of the possibilities for change in the environment and context of the press in India. While there is a lot to celebrate about the press in India, its institutional location within the market, its
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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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Supporting an Independent, Vibrant Media in Kazakhstan
In: OECD Integrity Scan of Kazakhstan: Preventing Corruption for a Competitive Economy
Paris: OECD (2017), pp. 275-296
"This chapter discusses the role of media in the Republic of Kazakhstan in combating corruption. First, it provides an assessment of the recently passed access to information legislation in the country as it relates to media's access to government information. Second, it analyses the extent to which
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Assessing Indonesian journalist threats: Cases, actors and motives
Media Asia, volume 44, issue 1 (2017), pp. 25-32
"This paper serves as a review of crimes committed against journalist in Indonesia within the past six years (2010–2015). This work draws primarily on the annual reports made by the Alliance of Independence Journalist (AJI), the prominent association of journalists in Indonesia. The first part int
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Pathways to Media Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa: Reflections from a Regional Consultation
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2017), 25 pp.
"To ensure that African media organizations remain viable players in this changing political and economic landscape, new coalitions need to be built and existing ones strengthened. The existing coalitions in the region display certain weaknesses: they tend to be unevenly spread across the region and
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Pressefreiheit in Mexiko: Kampf um ein Grundrecht
Berlin: Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (2017), 25 pp.
El triunfo de la libertad negativa: Discurso parlamentario en Chile acerca de la libertad de expresión
Latin American Research Review (LARR), volume 52, issue 3 (2017), pp. 319-333
"Se presenta un análisis temático de tres debates parlamentarios claves para el tema de la libertad de expresión en el ámbito mediático en Chile desde la vuelta a la democracia: la discusión en torno a la Ley de Prensa 1993–2001, el Informe de la Comisión Especial sobre las Libertades de Pe
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Veracruz: Journalists and the State of Fear
Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2017), 35 pp.
Media Use in the Middle East 2016: A Six-Nation Survey
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar (2016), 110 pp.
"It is too often assumed anyone can communicate via the internet or share in the benefits of easily available newspapers and free-to-air television or radio; this is not always true. Lower internet penetration and mobile broadband access in countries like Egypt and Tunisia, for example, stand in sha
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