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Turkey: How to deal with threats to journalism?

Bora Ataman, Baris Çoban

In: Transnational Othering – Global Diversities: Media, Extremism and Free Expression

Elisabeth Eide; Kristin Skare Orgeret; Nil Mutluer (eds.)

Göteborg: Nordicom (2019), pp. 171-190

"Journalism has always been an unsafe practice in modern Turkey. However, ties between the political system and democracy have been severed by the recent witch-hunt following the most recent failed coup, in 2016, and the subsequent societal collapse triggered by the administration of the state of em ... more

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The Shrinking Civic Space in East Africa

Kampala: CIPESA (2019), 19 pp.

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Protocolo de la impunidad en delitos contra periodistas: Análisis de investigaciones sobre delitos contra la libre expresión

Isaac Avila, Ramon Arceo

México, DF: Article 19 (2019), 158 pp.

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The Need for a New US Information Strategy for North Korea

Nat Kretchun

Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2019), 19 pp.

"Drawing on relevant literature, analysis of North Korean media and information control techniques, and interviews with refugees and defectors, this report argues that a new US information strategy is needed to alleviate the social isolation of the North Korean people and improve their long-term wel ... more

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Journalismus in Burundi: Erfahrungswelten in Konflikt und Transformation

Bettina Haasen

Wiesbaden: Springer (2019), xvii, 469 pp.

"Das Buch befasst sich mit der Rolle von Medien in einem politischen Ausnahmezustand. Bettina Haasen hat in Burundi Journalistinnen und Journalisten zu ihrem beruflichen Rollenselbstverständnis befragt und diese Aussagen unter Berücksichtigung ihrer sozialen Herkunft und den Zielen der internation ... more

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The 2018 Palestine Press Freedom Index

Ramallah: Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) (2019), 99 pp.

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"There is a Price to Pay": The Criminalization of Peaceful Speech in Lebanon

Jehanne Henry

New York: Human Rights Watch (2019), 122 pp.

"Over the past few years, Lebanon has witnessed an alarming increase in attacks on peaceful speech and expression. The country’s criminal defamation laws, which authorize imprisonment up to three years for peaceful speech, have been used against citizens who have written about pressing social issu ... more

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Tödliche Recherche: In Indien starben vier Journalisten innerhalb von vier Jahren. Alle schrieben sie über dasselbe Thema

Lena Kampf, Hannes Munzinger, Frederik Obermaier, Bastian Obermayer

Süddeutsche Zeitung, September 21 (2019)

"Jagendra Singh hatte wieder und wieder über einen Minister der Regierung im Bundesstaat Uttar Pradesh berichtet, der in den illegalen Abbau von Sand involviert gewesen sein soll [...] Singh ist einer von weltweit mindestens 13 Journalisten, die seit 2009 mutmaßlich getötet wurden, nachdem sie ü ... more

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Legal Responses to Online Harassment and Abuse of Journalists: Perspectives from Finland, France and Ireland

Jonathan McCully et al.

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media;International Press Institute (IPI) (2019), 39 pp.

"This report specifically examines legal remedies for online attacks against journalists. It looks at three case studies, in Finland, France and Ireland, of female journalists who were viciously attacked online for their work and the ensuing attempts to hold the perpetrators accountable. From an ana ... more

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Elecciones venezolanas de 2018: Hegemonía comunicacional del gobierno

Txomin Las Heras Leizaola

Bogotá: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2019), 9 pp.

"El investigador Óscar Lucien, exdirector del Instituto de Investigaciones de la Comunicación (Ininco) de la Universidad Central de Venezuela y autor del libro Cerco rojo a la libertad de expresión (La Hoja del Norte, Editorial Dahbar, Caracas, 2011), sostiene que el régimen venezolano ha diseñ ... more

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Intensified Attacks, New Defences: Developments in the Fight to Protect Journalists and End Impunity

Paris: UNESCO (2019), 70 pp.

"The period between 2014 through the end of 2018 has seen 495 journalists killed, according to UNESCO data, which represents an 18% increase in the number of killings as compared to the preceding 5-year period (2009-2013). Based on the number of killings, the most dangerous regions for journalists a ... more

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The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet

James Griffiths

London: Zed Books (2019), xiii, 385 pp.

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Big Brother is Watching: Surveillance Regulation and its Effects on Journalistic Practices in Zimbabwe

Allen Munoriyarwa, Sarah H. Chiumbu

African Journalism Studies, volume 40, issue 3 (2019), pp. 26-41

"In many African countries, including Zimbabwe, journalists have been subjected to various policy regulations that have widely been criticised for making the practice of journalism difficult. Part of the reason has been the advent of competitive politics that have left the ruling regimes scrambling ... more

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On media censorship, freedom of expression and the risks of journalism in Mexico

Fidel Gonzalez-Quinones, Juan D. Machin-Mastromatteo

Information Development, volume 35, issue 4 (2019), pp. 666-670

"We present a classification of the types of censorship of media to frame the various issues that journalism and freedom of expression face in Mexico, which mainly include the role of the State in preventing or enforcing censorship, the monopoly of a few corporate groups that control most of the mas ... more

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Silencing a Snakehead Fish: A Case Study in Local Media, Rural-Based Activism, and Defamation Litigation in Southern Myanmar

Jennifer Leehey

In: Myanmar Media in Transition: Legacies, Challenges and Change

Lisa Brooten; Jane Madlyn McElhone; Gayathry Venkiteswaran (eds.)

Singapore: ISEAS (2019), pp. 151-176

"My focus in this chapter is on civil society mobilization in Tanintharyi Region in southern Myanmar, and particularly in Kanbauk, a village of about 1,500 households in the Tanintharyi Hills, eighty kilometres north of the regional capital, Dawei. In recent years, Kanbauk villagers have contended w ... more

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Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age: A Historian’s Perspective

Richard R. John

Church, Communication and Culture, volume 4 (2019), pp. 25-38

"Freedom of expression has a history. It is neither coeval with Christianity, as Catholic apologists sometimes assume, nor inherently valuable, as commentators in the United States often contend. On the contrary, it emerged in its modern form only in the seventeenth century as a byproduct of generat ... more

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Despots and Disruptions: Five Dimensions of Internet Shutdowns in Africa

Kampala: CIPESA (2019), 12 pp.

"The more undemocratic the system of government, the more likely it is that the Internet will be shut down. To prove this, the authors refer to the annual Democracy Index of the British consulting firm Economist Intelligence Unit of the news magazine of the same name. According to the index, 17 of t ... more

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Contextualizing Hacktivism: The Criminalization of Redhack

Bülay Dogan

Philadelphia: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) (2019), 37 pp.

"Through a meticulous empirical examination of the criminalization of the Turkish hacktivist group Redhack, Dogan explores the critical conflation of hacktivism with cyber-terrorism—by national security organizations and academic researchers alike —that enables states to criminalize non-violent ... more

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News Organizations Safety Self-Assessment

Acos Alliance (2019), 7 pp.

"The News Organizations Safety Self-Assessment provides a tool for news outlets to review and improve safety practices and protocols that affect the newsroom and journalists out in the field. The Self-Assessment should help news organizations to identify and better understand their own weaknesses an ... more

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Media Ownership Monitor Argentina

Reporters Without Borders;Tiempo Argentino (2019), 1210 pp.

"The sample of media investigated by MOM includes 52 national outlets: 14 Television channels, 14 radio stations, 10 printed newspapers and 14 news websites. Most of them are owned by a few private companies mostly located in the metropolitan area of Buenos Aires. They concentrate audience shares, i ... more