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Endangered Voices: Nigerian Journalists’ Safety amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
"This chapter examines the difficult conditions Nigerian journalists faced while reporting during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the threats and dangers faced by Nigerian broadcast journalists and its implication for journalism practice amid a pandemic. Using a qualitative approach, we conducted
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The State of Innovation and Media Viability in East Africa: From Indepth Media House Surveys
Deep Insights
"The fact that about half of the news-producing media organizations categorise themselves as having insufficient newsroom resources as far as equipment, technology and training are concerned suggests that there is still need to look into equipping newsrooms technologically and continuing efforts to
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The State of Radio in Uganda: A 2020 Review and the New Reality of COVID-19
Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2021), 51 pp.
"With over 309 licensed radio stations, numerous public and private TV stations, and rapid growth in internet accessibility and usage, the media landscape in Uganda is dynamic, diverse, and rapidly evolving. Ugandans across the country from rural villages to urban centers are presented increasingly
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Radio comunitaria en pandemia: Aprendizajes y experiencias
Cuenca; Quito: Universidad Politécnica Salesiana; Abya-Yala (2021), 126 pp.
"¿Qué papel tuvieron las radios comunitarias durante la pandemia? Los autores de esta publicación analizan el contexto y los desafíos de la comunicación popular en Ecuador. La infodemia, la proliferación de noticias falsas, las dificultades de los medios de comunicación tradicionales en llega
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African Media Barometer: South Africa 2021
Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2021), 54 pp.
"Since its adoption on 1 July 2020, the Protection of Personal Information Act has bolstered freedom of expression and the right to privacy. This legislation aims to protect citizens’ personal information and balance the right to privacy with other rights, such as access to information. In Februar
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Digital News Report 2021
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2021), 163 pp.
"This year's report reveals new insights about digital news consumption based on a YouGov survey of over 92,000 online news consumers in 46 markets including India, Indonesia, Thailand, Nigeria, Colombia and Peru for the first time. The report looks at the impact of coronavirus on news consumption a
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Catalyst or Destabiliser? COVID-19 and its Impact on the Media Landscape Worldwide
Berlin: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2021), 159 pp.
"In terms of quality of media coverage, there are various outcomes: In Asia, for example, small and independent outlets, able to provide reliable information, gained momentum, whereas citizens in the MENA-region turned to social media in search of trustworthy facts on the coronavirus. In South-Easte
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‘Lockdown’ on Digital Journalism? Mapping Threats to Press Freedom During the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis
Digital Journalism, volume 9, issue 9 (2021), pp. 1344-1366
"Across the globe, governments have issued emergency and drastic measures aimed at tracking the spread of COVID-19 and safeguarding public health. Notwithstanding the necessity and importance of some of these measures, this work argues that numerous governments around the world used the pandemic cri
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La radio: El medio de comunicación que llega al 80 % de personas diariamente
Lima: CPI (2021), 6 pp.
"La pandemia del Covid 19 generó notables cambios en los hábitos de consumo de las personas y su interacción con los medios. Como consecuencia del aislamiento social, las personas buscaron fuentes de información y entretenimiento confiables y de fácil acceso, por lo que la radio incrementó su
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WHO Public Health Research Agenda for Managing Infodemics
Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO) (2021), xii, 53 pp.
"The five research streams are listed below. For each stream, three top research questions were identified, resulting in a list of 15 top priority research questions for the public health research agenda for infodemic management. Further, we listed for each subcategory a second tier of important res
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Does a Crisis Change News Habits? A Comparative Study of the Effects of COVID-19 on News Media Use in 17 European Countries
Digital Journalism, volume 9, issue 9 (2021), pp. 1208-1238
"Exogenous shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic unleashes multiple fundamental questions about society beyond public health. Based on the classical concept of ‘need for orientation’ and the literature on the role of the media in times of crisis, we investigate to what extent the COVID-19 pandemic a
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Radio y coronavirus: Aprendizajes del medio de comunicación en tiempos de pandemia
[authors] (2021), 40 pp.
"Reflexionar sobre la radio en tiempos de coronavirus resulta sano y necesario para el medio de comunicación. ¿Cómo no registrar su comportamiento en un momento tan único para la humanidad? Ante la necesaria reflexión, se presentan 20 aprendizajes o desafíos para el más oral de los medios de
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Repression and Resilience: Diagnosing Closing Space Mid-Pandemic
Brussels: European Partnership for Democracy (EPD) (2021), 46 pp.
Impact of Covid-19 on Media Sustainability
MISA-Zimbabwe (2021), 47 pp.
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Media Sustainability in Latin America: Changes and Transformations in the Production Models, Sources of Income, and Products of Latin American Media
Montevideo: UNESCO (2021), 18 pp.
"The advertising market crisis, which is the primary source of income for the majority of the media sector, was widespread, but Latin America was the most affected region. Furthermore, forecasts indicate that it will take two years to recover and return to 2019 levels. In this environment, the digit
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Silenced and Misinformed: Freedom of Expression in Danger During COVID-19
London: Amnesty International (2021), 38 pp.
"[...] governments have put up barriers to activities like reporting and sharing opinions and used the pandemic as a pretext to muzzle critical voices. Amnesty International is concerned that Covid-19 related restrictions are not just temporary measures but are part of an ongoing onslaught on human
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Media Economy in the Pandemic: A European Perspective
San Domenico di Fiesole: European University Institute; Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) (2021), 25 pp.
Coronavirus-Pandemie: Auswirkungen auf die Medienfreiheit in globaler Perspektive
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2021), 55 pp.
"Die Coronavirus-Pandemie hat sich in weiten Teilen der Welt negativ auf die Meinungs- und Medienfreiheit ausgewirkt. Betroffen sind viele Partnerländer der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Menschen können nicht auf relevante Informationen zugreifen, unter anderem, weil sie keinen adäquaten
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How COVID Drove the Evolution of Fact-Checking
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, volume 2, issue 3 (2021), 23 pp.
"With the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic came a flood of novel misinformation. Ranging from harmless false cures to dangerous rhetoric targeting minorities, coronavirus-related misinformation spread quickly wherever the virus itself did. Fact-checking organizations around the world took up the
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