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Tödliche Recherche: In Indien starben vier Journalisten innerhalb von vier Jahren. Alle schrieben sie über dasselbe Thema
Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 21 (2019)
"Jagendra Singh hatte wieder und wieder über einen Minister der Regierung im Bundesstaat Uttar Pradesh berichtet, der in den illegalen Abbau von Sand involviert gewesen sein soll [...] Singh ist einer von weltweit mindestens 13 Journalisten, die seit 2009 mutmaßlich getötet wurden, nachdem sie ü
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Turkey: How to deal with threats to journalism?
In: Transnational Othering – Global Diversities: Media, Extremism and Free Expression
Göteborg: Nordicom (2019), pp. 171-190
"Journalism has always been an unsafe practice in modern Turkey. However, ties between the political system and democracy have been severed by the recent witch-hunt following the most recent failed coup, in 2016, and the subsequent societal collapse triggered by the administration of the state of em
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Human Security as a Conceptual Framework: The Case of Palestinian Journalists
Journalism Studies, volume 13 (2019), pp. 1920-1939
"This exploratory study introduces a human security framework to examine the challenges that journalists face from daily professional and societal constraints and pressures when attempting to fulfill their role to inform the public in areas of conflict. The research focuses on the influences on Pale
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Fear, trauma and local journalists: Cross-border lessons in psychosocial support for journalists
International Media Support (IMS) (2019), 16 pp.
"95 per cent of journalists killed in armed conflict are locally based journalists. While there has been increasing focus on the physical and digital safety issues these journalists face, there has been less attention towards the need for psychosocial support. Addressing psychosocial needs of local
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Afghan journalists in a balancing act: Coping with deteriorating safety
Conflict & Communication Online, volume 18, issue 1 (2019), 16 pp.
"Afghan journalists have been experiencing a deteriorating situation, due to a multitude of threats. They operate in a situation of low popular literacy, as well as low media literacy. Threats from Taliban and other insurgents cause many journalists to live in constant fear. This article is based on
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Safety of Journalists Covering Conflict & Sensitive Issues
Conflict & Communication Online, volume 18, issue 1 (2019), 103 pp.
Safer Together: Considerations for Cooperation to Address Safety in the Media Support, Humanitarian and Human Rights Sectors
International Media Support (IMS) (2019), 31 pp.
"Every year, hundreds of human rights defenders, humanitarian workers and journalists and media workers are killed around the world – simply for doing their job. Hundreds more are threatened, sexually harassed, kidnapped, arrested, imprisoned or otherwise targeted. This briefing paper is the preli
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News Organizations Safety Self-Assessment
Acos Alliance (2019), 7 pp.
"The News Organizations Safety Self-Assessment provides a tool for news outlets to review and improve safety practices and protocols that affect the newsroom and journalists out in the field. The Self-Assessment should help news organizations to identify and better understand their own weaknesses an
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Intensified Attacks, New Defences: Developments in the Fight to Protect Journalists and End Impunity
Paris: UNESCO (2019), 70 pp.
"The period between 2014 through the end of 2018 has seen 495 journalists killed, according to UNESCO data, which represents an 18% increase in the number of killings as compared to the preceding 5-year period (2009-2013). Based on the number of killings, the most dangerous regions for journalists a
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Supporting Safety of Journalists in Afghanistan: An Assessment Based on UNESCO's Journalists' Safety Indicators
Paris: UNESCO; International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) (2019), 129 pp.
"This report maps threats against journalists in Afghanistan between January and December 2017. Divided into five key indicator categories, the report first provides an overview of the safety situation of journalists in Afghanistan; followed by the discussion of the roles and responses of State and
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Commitment Amid Conflict: The Experience of Central African Journalists Covering Their Country's War
In: Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), pp. 275-289
"The trend in international newsgathering is to greater reliance on local journalists and fixers to provide crucial information to a global audience. At the same time, these local journalists are themselves becoming targets of violence. Increasingly, local journalists are being killed in the line of
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Reporting War and Conflict
London; New York: Routledge (2019), xii, 218 pp.
"The book provides an historical and theoretical context to risk culture and the work of war correspondents, paying particular attention to the changing nature of technology, organisational structures and the role of witnessing. The conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria are examined to highlight
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Socio-Psychological Effects on Media Professional Standards during Military Operations in Pakistan
Global Social Sciences Review, volume 4, issue 2 (2019), pp. 269-275
"While using qualitative and quantitative techniques, this study analyzes the issues and challenges faced by the journalists while working in the areas going under military operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and FATA. Based on the hierarchy of influences model, a survey was conducted in Wazirista
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Safety culture changing visual representations of wars? The case of Afghanistan
Conflict & Communication Online, volume 18, issue 1 (2019), 13 pp.
"In international conflict correspondence safety mechanisms are unequally employed to protect local news-staffs in contrast to international staffs. Arguably, this has had the greatest impact on image production from war zones, exposing local photojournalists to increased dangers. But it also raises
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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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Reporting Human Rights, Conflicts, and Peacebuilding: Critical and Global Perspectives
Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xxi, 280 pp.
"This book focuses on the reporting of human rights in broadly defined times of conflict. It brings together scholarly and professional perspectives on the role of the media in constructing human rights and peacebuilding options in conflict and post-conflict environments, drawing on case studies fro
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Fixers in corporate media: Pashtun journalists under threat in North Western Pakistan
Conflict & Communication Online, volume 18, issue 1 (2019), 9 pp.
"Local fixers are becoming increasingly important for international media due to escalating security threats to international journalists, budget cuts within international media organizations, and the disappearance of long-stay correspondents. Local fixers give local color and context to news storie
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Culture of impunity and safety of journalists: Is safe journalism a distant dream in Pakistan?
Journal of Russian Media and Journalism Studies, issue 1 (2019), pp. 51-66
"Pakistan’s journalists confront fatal safety risks in the line of their duty and are at the mercy of various types of pressure and extremist groups that threaten, kidnap and even murder them with almost total impunity. Despite the growing violence against journalists in Pakistan, there is a deart
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Digital security awareness and practices of journalists in Turkey: A descriptive study
Conflict & Communication Online, volume 18, issue 1 (2019), pp. 1-16
"This study aims to measure the level of digital security awareness of journalists in Turkey who use digital technology in the course of their work. In the study, research questions are answered using data collected by means of an online survey in relation to the digital security risks faced, the ex
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Journalists' Safety and Multifaceted Censorship in Colombia: An Exploratory Study
International Affairs and Global Strategy, volume 78 (2019), pp. 33-46
"Safety of journalists has been studied as part of freedom of expression. However, there is scarce qualitative research on Colombian regional journalists’ safety. This chapter seeks to address issues surrounding journalists’ safety and censorship in Colombia shedding light on triple menace: the
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