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Online Security in the Middle East and North Africa: A Survey of Perceptions, Knowledge, and Practice
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University (2011), 15 pp.
"In this report we describe the results of a survey of 98 bloggers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) carried out in May 2011 in order to study bloggers’ perceptions of online risk and the actions they take to address digital communications security, including both Internet and cell phone
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Children and the Media: A Survey of the Children and Young People’s Opinion on Their Use and Trust in Media
Tirana: Albanian Media Institute; UNICEF (2011), 48 pp.
"This material summarizes the main results and trends of a survey carried out with children and young people aged 13-18 in Tirana. The material focuses on the preference of this age group regarding different media, on the trends of opinions, suggestions for improvement, especially regarding the port
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Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media
Washington, DC: International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) (2011), 393 pp.
"There is abundant evidence of underrepresentation of women as subjects of coverage, but until now there were no reliable, comprehensive data on which to make a clear determination about where women currently fit into the news-making operation or in the decision-making or ownership structure of thei
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Journalists Without Bounds
Beirut: Journalists@journalism.com; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 40, 39 pp.
"This study is the first experimental attempt to identify the family, legal and professional conditions of journalists in Lebanon. But the desire to undertake a comprehensive survey of all journalists working in the media in all Lebanese regions has not been realized for several reasons; the most im
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Dadaab, Kenya: Humanitarian Communications and Information Needs Assessment Among Refugees in the Camps. Findings, Analysis & Recommendations
Arcata, Calif.; Washington, DC: Internews (2011), 80 pp.
"Serious communication gaps between the humanitarian sector and refugees in Dadaab, Kenya, are increasing refugee suffering and putting lives at risk. There are clear indications that these information gaps are hampering the aid response and that despite important efforts from individual agencies, c
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Financially Viable Media in Emerging and Developing Markets
Deep Insights
Paris: World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA); African Media Initiative (AMI) (2011), 118 pp.
"This report investigates the relationships between media freedoms, financial sustainability of media in emerging markets, and international media support. It is based on a survey of more than 220 newspapers and media executives in more than sixty countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas,
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Populist Disseminators, Detached Watchdogs, Critical Change Agents and Opportunist Facilitators: Professional Milieus, the Journalistic Field and Autonomy in 18 Countries
International Communication Gazette, volume 73, issue 6 (2011), pp. 477-494
"This article sets out to map the journalistic field as a space of struggle between distinct professional milieus. These milieus crystallize around journalists who share similar views on journalism’s function in society. By means of cluster analysis, four global professional milieus were extracted
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The New Arab Journalist: Mission and Identity in a Time of Turmoil
Deep Insights
London; New York: Tauris (2011), xii, 287 pp.
"Drawing on the first broad cross-border survey of Arab journalists, first-person interviews with scores of reporters and editors, and his three decades' experience reporting from the Middle East, Lawrence Pintak examines how Arab journalists see themselves and their mission at this critical time in
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Funding Free Expression: Perceptions and Reality in a Changing Landscape
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2011), 25 pp.
"Seven key findings emerged from this research: 1. Overall donor funding for free expression work has increased–not decreased–over the past three to five years [...] 2. Under current conditions, it is impossible to conclusively measure the amount of free expression funding. Donors themselves hav
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Digital Publishing in Developing Countries
Deep Insights
Paris: International Alliance of Independent Publishers (2011), 155 pp.
"Is it conceivable that there may be an autonomous evolution of digital publications in developing countries, entirely independent of the richest nations? What support policies could be implemented to promote the growth of this new industry and accompany traditional actors in the process of adapting
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Media System and News Selection in Namibia
Berlin; Münster: Lit (2010), 219 pp.
"This publication was created to serve two purposes: Firstly, it aims to provide a thorough review of the status quo of the Namibian media system. Secondly, it is the first study to apply the theory of the European-focused news value research tradition to Namibian media. Aside from literature and on
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Witnessing trauma in the newsroom: Posttraumatic symptoms in television journalists exposed to violent news clips
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, volume 198, issue 4 (2010), pp. 264-271
"Employees working in television newsrooms are exposed to video footage of violent events on a daily basis. It is yet unknown whether they subsequently develop symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder as has been shown for other populations exposed to trauma through television. We conducted an inte
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The effects of exposure to crisis on well-being of journalists: A study of crisis-related factors predicting psychological health in a sample of Finnish journalists
Media, War & Conflict, volume 3, issue 2 (2010), pp. 138–151
"Effects of work-related and personal exposure to potentially traumatic events on PTSD (posttraumatic stress disorder), depression, compassion fatigue and burnout were examined in 503 Finnish news journalists (238 men, 265 women) by using a web-based survey. Stepwise linear multiple regression analy
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Online Survey Report: Radio for Peace Building Workshops
London: Radio for Peacebuilding (2010), 21 pp.
Médias et religions en Afrique de l'Ouest
Dakar: Panos Afrique de l'Ouest (2009), 173 pp.
"The findings of the research reflect two overarching concerns: training content and training delivery. It is a central finding of the research that financial skills are required by the sector. Related to this is the need to encourage professional attitudes, processes, and systems within the sector.
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Funding for Freedom of Expression Organizations: Report of a Survey of IFEX Members
Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia, James Cox Center for International Mass Communication Training and Research (2009), 67 pp.
"The vast majority of IFEX members say it is more difficult now than a year ago to find project funding. Half say it is more difficult now than five years ago to find project funding. The dominant source for project funding is foundations outside the country of the member. A majority of IFEX members
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"Attempts to Influence": Survey of Perceptions of Albanian Journalists
New York: Open Society Institute (2009), 5 pp.
"The following text examines the freedom of the press in Albania from the subjective perspective of journalists. It does not discuss individual cases, or provide statistics on violence against journalists, but it does reveal how journalists felt affected by different political actors and events duri
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