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Journalism in Transitional Context: Societal Hostility, Self-Censorship and the Expansion of “One Voice Journalism"
Journalism Practice, volume 19, issue 9 (2025), pp. 1921-1939
"The transformations in the media and political landscapes in Egypt over the last decade and their implications on media pluralism and freedom of expression are well documented. However, less is known about how Egyptian journalists themselves experience these changes; how their relationships with au
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Strengthening safety and security resources for visual storytellers and journalists. A scoping study
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International Resource for Impact and Storytelling (IRIS); Ford Foundation (2022), iv, 114 pp.
"With attacks against storytellers increasing year-on-year, concern has grown about the lack of safety and security resources available to them. This is the focus of our study. Through a series of 120 interviews with artists, filmmakers, journalists, funders, activists, academics and others, along w
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Press and planet in danger: Safety of environmental journalists – trends, challenges and recommendations
Paris: UNESCO (2024), 18 pp.
"At least 749 journalists, groups of journalists, and news media outlets reporting on environmental issues have been attacked in 89 countries between 2009 and 2023, in all regions of the world. Over 300 attacks occurred in the past five years, marking a 42% increase from the preceding five-year peri
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Journalists’ Perceptions of Precarity: Toward a Theoretical Model
Journalism Studies, volume 25, issue 2 (2024), pp. 199-217
"Journalistic work has become increasingly precarious. Labor conditions in the profession meet several criteria of precarity, as established in the sociology of work. Journalists, especially freelancers, often have low and unstable incomes and only limited access to social insurance. Thus far, preca
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Bound by Exile: Exploring Kinship Dynamics and Role Perceptions among Diaspora Journalists
Journalism Studies (2024), 20 pp.
"The escalating dangers journalists face globally have led to a marked increase in media professionals seeking safety away from their home countries. As a result, journalists are increasingly forced to choose between silence and survival, with many opting for the latter in the form of diaspora reloc
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Journalism and Safety: An Introduction to the Field
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xi, 311 pp.
"This volume presents key international research on journalism and safety with a focus on conceptual, global, and transnational approaches, as well as conflict, challenges, and consequences for democracy. It offers an overview of the latest research and ongoing developments in the field of journalis
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The Role of Law Enforcement Agents: Strengthening Investigations Into Crimes Against Journalists
2023: UNESCO (2023), 17 pp.
"1. Consideration should be given at an early stage of an investigation whether there are connections between the victim’s journalistic activities and the crimes committed against them. 2. Investigators should be given specific training around the issues and challenges faced in investigating crime
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The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and its Potential to Foster Freedom of Expression, Access to Information and Safety of Journalists: A Guide for Journalists
Paris: UNESCO (2023), 15 pp.
"This guide aims to provide information to help improve press coverage of the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) on issues relating to the right to freedom of expression, the safety of journalists and access to information with the purpose of improving their ability to inform the public, to a professio
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Conceptualizing Journalists’ Safety around the Globe
Digital Journalism, volume 11, issue 7 (2023), pp. 1211-1229
"Killings, as the most extreme form of violence against journalists, receive considerable attention, but journalists experience a variety of threats from surveillance to gendered cyber targeting and hate speech, or even the intentional deprivation of their financial basis. This article provides a co
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External Monitoring of Coercive Agents and the Murders of Journalists: A Cross-National Study of Journalist Killings, 1992–2018
Human Rights Quarterly, volume 45, issue 1 (2023), pp. 32-61
"Targeted attacks on journalists are internationally condemned crimes, which not only undermine freedom of expression, but also symbolize an utter disregard for basic human rights. Yet, murders of journalists occur in all types of regimes, whether autocratic or democratic. This article explores the
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Journalism is a Public Good: World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development, Global Report 2021/2022
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Paris: UNESCO (2022), 160 pp.
"Over the past five years, approximately 85 percent of the world’s population experienced a decline in press freedom in their country. Even in countries with long traditions of safeguarding free and independent journalism, financial and technological transformations have forced news outlets, espec
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Media and Uncertainty. Understanding the Institutional Precarity of Journalism: A Macro Approach to the Civil Diminishment of Journalism
International Journal of Communication, volume 16 (2022), pp. 3885-3897
"This article develops a conceptual framework for understanding risk to journalism, more specifically, risk to the standing of journalism as a civil institution generated by macro-level state and market forces of civil diminishment. While the state and market arguably belong to the most well-studied
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Can Journalists Be Safe in a Violent World?
Journalism Practice, volume 16, issue 9 (2022), pp. 1948-1954
"The safety of journalists is one of the most formidable challenges for press freedom and democracy around the world. The problem is the result of the juxtaposition of various forms of violence that break journalists’ sense of security and autonomy – the ability to control and decide the paramet
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Determinants of Journalists' Autonomy and Safety: Evidence from the Worlds of Journalism Study
Journalism Practice, volume 16, issue 8 (2022), pp. 1715-1735
"The present study is an attempt to examine how objective structural political forces and subjective perception of political influences determine journalists' autonomy and safety. The evidence is based on responses representing journalists from 65 countries, which adds to the cross-cultural robustne
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