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Monitoring journalism safety
In: The Routledge Handbook of Conflict and Peace Communication
London; New York: Routledge (2024), 10 pp.
"This chapter discusses the monitoring of violations of the right to life and safety of journalists. The safety of journalists is a prerequisite for the provision of access to reliable information to the public, but journalists worldwide face risks as a result of their work. Monitoring violations he
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Attacks Against Journalists in Brazil: Catalyzing Effects and Resilience During Jair Bolsonaro’s Government
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 29, issue 4 (2024), pp. 847-868
"Attacks on journalists have become a growing concern in democracies around the world. Past scholarship suggests that such attacks could lead to a chilling effect of journalists self-censoring their reporting. However, there is limited empirical work that substantiates the effects of attacks on jour
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Challenges to journalism safety education in Pakistan: Proposing a new theoretical model
Media Practice and Education, volume 25, issue 3 (2024), pp. 286-301
"This article explores the challenges faced by the media education and curricula development in Pakistan, and how the safety of journalists is apportioned in the courses and curriculum of mass communication in different universities. The study uses a mixed method research, including quantitative app
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Journalists' safety before the 2024 elections
Tbilisi: Center for Media Information and Social Research; DW Akademie (2024), 21 pp.
Safety of women journalists
International Media Support (IMS) (2024), 6 pp.
An Intersectional Analysis of Aotearoa New Zealand Journalists’ Online and Offline Experiences of Abuse, Threats and Violence
Journalism Studies, volume 25, issue 2 (2024), pp. 160-180
"Criticism towards journalists has increased significantly since the internet created easy and anonymous communication and has turned more abusive and threatening in recent years, becoming a regular feature of journalists’ work environment, particularly for women. This article presents survey data
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Watching the watchdogs: Spyware surveillance of journalists in Europe and the ongoing fight for accountability
Potsdam; Vienna: Friedrich Naumann Foundation; International Press Institute (IPI) (2024), 18 pp.
"The surveillance of journalists, including using spyware technology, poses a fundamental threat to media freedom, the digital safety of journalists, and source protection within the European Union. The agreement on the European Media Freedom Act in December 2023 offers some further protections agai
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Media and Politics in Post-Authoritarian Mexico: The Continuing Struggle for Democracy
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2024), xiii, 286 pp.
"This volume presents an analytical and empirical overview of the array of issues that the Mexican media faces in the post-authoritarian age, which jointly explains how a partially accomplished democracy, its authoritarian inertias, and its unintended consequences hinder the democratic performance o
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“Voices from the Island”: Informational annexation of Crimea and transformations of journalistic practices
Journalism, volume 25, issue 3 (2024), pp. 528–546
"After the annexation of Crimea by Russia in March 2014, the peninsula experienced a progressive transition of telecommunication and broadcasting infrastructure under Russian influence, followed by a wave of repression of Ukrainian media. Between 2014 and 2015, dozens of Ukrainian media organization
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Dealing with the Black Box: European Journalists and the Threats of Spyware
Digital Journalism (2024), 20 pp.
"Revelations from the 2021 “Pegasus Project” investigation into the use of spyware have confirmed long-held concerns about the proliferation of the technology as a surveillance solution to monitor the activities of journalists around the world. Spyware is a particularly malicious form of malware
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Safety Resources
Key Guides
Acos Alliance (2024)
"Our resources include a curated selection of the most practical safety guides from ACOS signatories and partners, alongside specially-designed tools and templates for journalists, editors and newsrooms." (https://www.acosalliance.org/resources)
Threats to press freedom and journalists' safety: A comparative study of Greece, Slovakia, and Spain
"Free journalism is indispensable for monitoring the actions of political representation, holding it accountable, exposing the misuse of power, and defending public interests. Fulfilling these roles assumes that journalists can do their job and pursue public-interest stories to the best of their abi
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Press Freedom Under Siege: Women Journalists in Mexico
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation; Article 19 (2024), 15 pp.
"The abuse and harassment against women journalists has become increasingly frequent and more coordinated in Mexico. As demonstrated throughout this study, it aims to threaten, silence, and stigmatize women journalists, with the potential to keep them out of public spaces. Despite the importance of
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Le journalisme sénégalais a la croisée des chemins
Paris: Reporters Sans Frontières (2024), 27 pp.
Safety, reactions, and organizational support: Estonian journalists' experiences with hostility
In: Global Journalism in Comparative Perspective: Case Studies
London; New York: Routledge (2024), pp. 40-52
"This chapter concludes multiyear research on journalists’ safety and well-being in Estonia and focuses on summarizing journalist experiences with and reactions to hostility. In addition to categorizing and describing the problems, the chapter also provides insight into what journalists expect fro
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Safety policy: Creating a safe working environment for journalists
Amsterdam: Free Press Unlimited (2024), 13 pp.
"In the next five years, Free Press Unlimited will work towards the following five goals to enhance the safety of media professionals:
1. Media professionals supported by Free Press Unlimited programmes are able to deal effectively with interference and threats at a physical, digital, legal and psy
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