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Journalism Under Threat: Intimidation and Harassment of Swedish journalists

Henrik Monica Lögren & Örnebring Nilsson

Journalism Practice, volume 10, issue 7 (2016), pp. 880-890

"Previous studies of intimidation and harassment of journalists have (rightly) focused on non-democratic and authoritarian nations and/or transitional/emerging democracies. In this article, we examine the situation in Sweden, a country with strong de facto and de jure safeguards of journalistic free ... more

Professionalism under threat of violence: Journalism, reflexivity, and the potential for collective professional autonomy in northern Mexico

Jeannine E Relly, Celeste González de Bustamante

Journalism Studies, volume 17, issue 6 (2016), pp. 684-702

"Mexico is one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists, as more than 100 journalists have been murdered between 2000 and 2014, with almost half of those killed in the country's northern states. Through an analysis of in-depth interviews with journalists in northern Mexico, this qua ... more

On the Need to Amend Chapter XV of the Special Section of the Criminal Code of Ukraine

Lyudmila Mostepanyuk

Journal of Eastern European Law, volume 24 (2016), pp. 57-61

"The article deals with the issue of establishing criminal liability for crimes against journalists. Areas of research on this subject are identified. The basic research and publications on issues are reviewed. The need for introducing such liability is investigated. It is indicated that several spe ... more

Chile: Female Journalists Without Access to Power

Claudia Lagos, Claudia Mellado

In: The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Journalism

Carolyn M. Byerly (ed.)

Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), pp. 226-237

"In March 2006, socialist politician Michelle Bachelet became not only the first woman to assume the presidency of Chile, but also the first female president in South America. Bachelet appointed a cabinet with an equal number of men and women. Although there were several other changes to her cabinet ... more

Journalistic Role Performance: A New Research Agenda in a Digital and Global Media Environment

Claudia Mellado, Lea Hellmueller

In: Journalistic Role Performance

Claudia Mellado; Lea Hellmueller; Wolfgang Donsbach (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2016), 18 pp.

"Global press freedom declined to its lowest point in 12 years in 2015, mainly due to political, criminal, and terrorist forces that sought to co-opt or silence the media in their struggle for power (Freedom House, 2016). As of 2015, only one in seven people around the world lived in a country that ... more

The practice and study of journalism in zones of violence in Latin America: Mexico as a case study

Jeannine E Relly, Celeste González de Bustamante

Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies, volume 5, issue 1 (2016), pp. 51-69

"In Latin America in the twenty-first century, journalists face daily professional and societal constraints and pressures when attempting to fulfill their role to inform the public. Concerns include a lack of press freedom, robust and growing social movements critical of the news media, and personal ... more

Women in war: Challenges and possibilities for female journalists covering wars and conflicts

Kristin Skare Orgeret

In: Freedom of Expression and Media in Transition: Studies and Reflections in the Digital Age

Ulla Carlsson (ed.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), pp. 165-176

"The chapter takes as its starting point the notion that journalists’ safety is a precondition for free expression and free media. Based on interviews and discussions with experienced female war and conflict journalists from seven countries worldwide, the discussion evolves around questions linked ... more

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Press Freedom, Governance, and Culture of Impunity: The Alarming Case of the Philippines

Danilo Araña Arao

4th International Conference on Magsaysay Awardees: Good Governance and Transformative Leadership in Asia (2016), pp. 225-234

"Ending the culture of impunity requires strengthening the culture of resistance. Impunity results in the dearth or absence of press freedom which, in turn, has deleterious effects on the practice of journalism as the people are deprived of relevant information that could help shape public opinion. ... more

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Reporting Dangerously: Journalist Killings, Intimidation and Security

Simon Cottle, Richard Sambrook, Nick Mosdell

Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), ix, 224 pp.

"Examines the statistics and looks at the trends in journalist killings and intimidation around the world. It identifies what factors have led to this rise and positions these in historical and global contexts. This important study also provides case studies and first-hand accounts from journalists ... more

Gender, risk and journalism

Nicholas Mosdell Janet Harris, James Griffiths

Journalism Practice, volume 10, issue 7 (2016), pp. 902-916

"Are female journalists more at risk in covering conflict than their male colleagues? Beck states ‘risk is the anticipation of the catastrophe – so it is existent and non-existent’. Is the contention that female journalists are more at risk, knowledge, or a construction of knowledge? Are Edito ... more

Mexico: Structural Challenges for Women in News Media

Aimée Vega Montiel, Patricia Ramírez Ortega

In: The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Journalism

Carolyn M. Byerly (eds.)

Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), pp. 284-300

"This chapter will analyze women’s access to and participation in Mexico’s news media. At the intersections of feminism and the political economy of communication, we will put into context the findings for Mexico in the Global Report on the Status of Women in the News Media (Global Report) (Byer ... more

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Factors Affecting the Status of Women Journalists: A Structural Analysis

Carolyn M. Byerly

In: The Palgrave International Handbook of Women and Journalism

Carolyn M. Byerly (ed.)

Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), pp. 11-23

"Any assessment of women journalists’ status in their newsrooms should begin with the big picture. Women professionals inside news and other media enterprises have been the torchbearers of change for at least three decades. Sometimes assisted by enlightened male allies, women in journalism and oth ... more

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Damaging and daunting: Female journalists’ experiences of sexual harassment in the newsroom

Louise North

Feminist Media Studies, volume 16, issue 3 (2016), pp. 495-510

"Female journalists’ experiences of sexual harassment are barely documented in the literature about Australian news journalism despite evidence of its ongoing prevalence. There have been some stories of harassment detailed in autobiographies by female journalists and the occasional article in the ... more

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Job demands, coping, and impacts of occupational stress among journalists: A systematic review

Susana Monteiro, Marques Pinto, Alexandra, Magda Sofia Roberto

European Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology, volume 25, issue 5 (2016), pp. 751-772

"This paper systematically reviews empirical research published from 2002 to July 2015 investigating journalists’ occupational stressors, coping strategies, and the impacts of these variables on the health and well-being of such professionals, whether on their daily work or as special envoys to cr ... more

The (Un)safe Practice of Journalism: An Analysis Based on UNESCO’s Journalists’ Safety Indicators Assessments

Reeta Pöyhtäri

In: Freedom of Expression and Media in Transition: Studies and Reflections in the Digital Age

Ulla Carlsson (ed.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2016), pp. 103-107

"Journalists around the world are being killed and threatened for doing their work. This is a serious hindrance to freedom of expression and the safe practice of journalism. UN and UNESCO have led the process to create the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity to i ... more

Civil War in Syria: The psychological effects on journalists

Anthony Feinstein, Stephen Starr

Journal of Aggression, Conflict and Peace Research, volume 7, issue 1 (2015), pp. 57-64

"Purpose: More journalists died in Syria during 2013 than in any other country experiencing conflict. This statistic raises concerns about the psychological wellbeing of journalists covering the internecine violence. The paper aims to discuss this issue. Design/methodology/approach: The study sample ... more

Terms of Choice: Uncertainty, Journalism, and Crisis

Barbie Zelizer

Journal of Communication, volume 65 (2015), pp. 888-908

"This article considers whether thinking about journalism's present set of challenges is best served by the notion of “crisis.” It argues that adopting such a notion to explain a diverse set of technological, political, economic, social, occupational, moral, and legal circumstances misses an opp ... more

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Building Digital Safety for Journalism: A Survey of Selected Issues

Jennifer R. Henrichsen, Michelle Betz, Joanne M. Lisosky

Paris: UNESCO (2015), 101 pp.

"This publication identifies at least 12 digital threats, including illegal or arbitrary digital surveillance, location tracking, and software and hardware exploits without the knowledge of the target. Further examples that are considered are: phishing, fake domain attacks, Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) ... more