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Media at War: The Iraq Crisis
London: Sage (2004), 188 pp.
"International media coverage of the war in Iraq provoked public scrutiny as well debate amongst journalists themselves. Media at War offers a critical overview of the coverage in the context of other preceding wars, including the first Gulf War, and opens up the debate on the key questions that eme
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The protection of journalists and news media personnel in armed conflict
International Review of the Red Cross, volume 86, issue 853 (2004), pp. 37-67
"The recent war in Iraq is a perfect illustration of the growing risks faced by journalists working in conflict zones. It is therefore important to call renewed attention to the fact that attacks against journalists and media equipment are illegal under international humanitarian law, which protects
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Tragedies and Journalists: A Guide for More Effective Coverage
Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma (2003), 16 pp.
"Journalists face unusual challenges when covering violent or mass tragedies. They face the possibility of being a first responder to a violent event. They interact with victims dealing with extraordinary grief. Journalists who cover any “blood-and-guts” beat often build a needed and appropriate
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On Assignment: A Guide to Reporting in Dangerous Situations
New York: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (2003), 65 pp.
"Aimed at reporters in conflict zones and hostile areas, this report provides an overview of security issues and includes information on training courses, protective equipment, and insurance policies. It also offer useful tips on assessing, minimizing and managing risk. This guide should be read not
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Live News: A Survival Guide for Journalists
Brussels: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2003), 135 pp.
"The IFJ has campaigned for many years for greater safety and for a focus on the in-country journalists and freelances who are at greatest risk and who have the least protection. With the creation of the International News Safety Institute (see pages 103-105), that is beginning to happen. This book
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Practical Guide for Journalists
Paris: Reporters Without Borders; UNESCO (2002), 104 pp.
"This guide is both ambitious and modest. Ambitious because it wants to help journalists working in war situations. Modest because we have no miracle solution to offer. But the suggestions you will find in this guide, based on an all too often ignored common sense, should help many reporters to stee
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Danger and Deadlines: Journalists' Rights on the Palestine Peace Agenda
Brussels: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2002), 13 pp. + approx. 40 pp.
Reporting under fire: The physical safety and emotional welfare of journalists
"The September 11 attack on the twin towers and the subsequent anthrax incidents have created a growing debate and subsequent concern with what is now termed urban war corresponding. A realization is emerging that those correspondents who covered September 11 (who may not be war correspondents) may
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Photography, Journalism and Trauma
"Not long after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, a memo from the American Press Institute went out to US news editors and reporters, advising them on the “correct” way to utilize photographs in crisis reporting. In part the directive said, “our backs are to
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Remaking the pen mightier than the sword: An evaluation of the growing need for the international protection of journalists
Georgia Journal of International & Comparative Law, volume 30 (2002), pp. 505-542
"It is the goal of this note to explore this problem with a particular emphasis on potential methods by which the international community can work to protect the press. In order to better understand this problem as it exists today, this note begins with a historical analysis of the development of in
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Freedom as a Value in Arab Media: Perceptions and Attitudes Among Journalists
Political Communication, volume 19, issue 5 (2002), pp. 125-135
"This article examines the development of freedom of the press and censorship in Egypt and the Arab world. Further, it discusses patterns of influence on freedom of the press and their impact on Arab journalists. It finds that press freedom in Arab countries and the performance of Arab journalists a
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Antipress Violence and the Crisis of the State
International Journal of Press/Politics, volume 7, issue 3 (2002), pp. 90-109
"Although it is an issue of immediate interest to reporters and press organizations, antipress violence has not elicited a great deal of scholarly attention. While in the context of developed democracies, studies have concluded that violence against the press has significantly diminished in the twen
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‘Enough is Enough’: An ethnography of the struggle against impunity in Burkina Faso
Journal of Modern African Studies, volume 40, issue 2 (2002), pp. 217-246
"This article analyses the ways in which socio-political opposition is expressed by looking into the morally loaded discourse of political legitimacy in Burkina Faso that emerged after the assassination of the journalist Norbert Zongo in December. Through the analysis of different political statemen
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Preparing for Battle: American news organizations lag behind some of their European counterparts when it comes to providing survival training and drafting safety guidelines for war correspondents. A group of journalists is pushing to narrow the gap
American Journalism Review, volume 24, issue 6 (2002), pp. 39-43
"The notion of survival skills and safety guidelines has been slow to catch on with top media managers in the United States. In Europe, the BBC, ITN and Reuters mandate training for foreign correspondents. It has taken an era of international terrorism to spark a stronger push on the home front." (A
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Violence against the Press in Latin America: Protections and Remedies in International Law
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, volume 78, issue 2 (2001), pp. 275-290
"This article identifies a trend in international law addressing the murders of journalists in Latin America. Recent cases by international human-rights tribunals are analyzed for their holdings that murders of journalists violate the free-expression guarantees of the American Convention on Human Ri
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Couvrir la Palestine: L'avenir incertain du journalisme en zone dangereuse. Rapport de mission de la FIJ à Jérusalem et en Cisjordanie, nov. 2001
Bruxelles: Fédération Internationale des Journalistes (FIJ) (2001), 15 pp.
"Des actions urgentes doivent être menées par la communauté internationale des journalistes pour diminuer l’ampleur de la crise à laquelle les journalistes de la région sont confrontés. La FIJ, en coopération avec d’autres agences non-gouvernementales et intergouvernementales, devrait met
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The Independence of the Commonwealth Media and Those Working Within It
Commonwealth Press Union (1999), 52 pp.
"This report aims to examine the current status of the media, particularly the print media, in the member states of the Commonwealth. It will look both at the issues facing individual countries, and also at the many common questions and problems that face member states, at whatever stage of developm
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Dangerous Ground: The Inside Story of Britain's Leading Investigative Journalist
Harper Collins (1999), 242, [16] pp.
"The hard-hitting autobiography of the renowned, high profile TV investigator. In twenty-five years of investigative reporting Roger Cook has been knocked unconscious a dozen times, hospitalized on almost thirty occasions, and has had twenty-three bones broken by those who have resented his ruthless
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Impunity no more: Unpunished Crimes Against Journalists
Miami: Inter American Press Association (IAPA); Colonial Press International (1999), 221 pp.
"The document discusses the Inter American Press Association's (IAPA) project on unpunished crimes against journalists. Over the past decade, more than 200 journalists have been murdered for doing their jobs reporting the news. Many of these crimes remain unsolved, allowing impunity to prevail. The
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