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China’s New Media Dilemma: The Profit in Online Dissent
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2019), 24 pp.
"Drawing from often overlooked sources of evidence, this report shows that China’s homegrown social media platforms have responded to market incentives by subtly shielding users from certain forms of online censorship and repression. Meanwhile, the party confronts rising costs—both economicall
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Journalists' Safety and Multifaceted Censorship in Colombia: An Exploratory Study
International Affairs and Global Strategy, volume 78 (2019), pp. 33-46
"Safety of journalists has been studied as part of freedom of expression. However, there is scarce qualitative research on Colombian regional journalists’ safety. This chapter seeks to address issues surrounding journalists’ safety and censorship in Colombia shedding light on triple menace: the
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Theorising Voice in India: The Jan Sunwai and the Right to Information Movement
In: The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media
London; New York: Routledge, paperback ed. (2019), pp. 134-143
Freedom and the Media: A Downward Spiral
Freedom House (2019), 30 pp.
"According to Freedom House’s Freedom in the World data, media freedom has been deteriorating around the world over the past decade, with new forms of repression taking hold in open societies and authoritarian states alike. The trend is most acute in Europe, previously a bastion of well-establishe
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Media Ownership Monitor India
Reporters Without Borders; Data Leads (2019), 1360 pp.
"The Media Ownership Monitor – India finds out that while the ownership of media seems fairly plural at the national level, it is highly concentrated when one zooms into the regional level. More importantly, prominent national players have ceded their position of eminence at the regional level, wh
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Supporting Safety of Journalists in Afghanistan: An Assessment Based on UNESCO's Journalists' Safety Indicators
Paris: UNESCO; International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) (2019), 129 pp.
"This report maps threats against journalists in Afghanistan between January and December 2017. Divided into five key indicator categories, the report first provides an overview of the safety situation of journalists in Afghanistan; followed by the discussion of the roles and responses of State and
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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
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"There is a Price to Pay": The Criminalization of Peaceful Speech in Lebanon
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
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The Need for a New US Information Strategy for North Korea
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
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Freedom of Expression in the Digital Age: A Historian’s Perspective
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
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The Shrinking Civic Space in East Africa
Kampala: CIPESA (2019), 19 pp.
The Great Firewall of China: How to Build and Control an Alternative Version of the Internet
London: Zed Books (2019), xiii, 385 pp.
Media Ownership Monitor Egypt
Reporters Without Borders (2019), 687 pp.
"A hostile takeover of Egypt’s media is under way, leaving the influence on public opinion to be controlled by the state, the secret services and a few wealthy owners loyal to the regime and with close ties to the former president Hosni Mubarak. In a move to gain influence over the State-owned med
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Safety of Journalists Covering Conflict & Sensitive Issues
Conflict & Communication Online, volume 18, issue 1 (2019), 103 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
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Truth Vs Misinformation: The Collective Push Back. South Asia Press Freedom Report 2018-19
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2019), 83 pp.
"In 2018, South Asia was declared by the IFJ as the most deadly region in the world for media workers, which most brutally demonstrates the reality faced by far too many in the industry. Nowhere was this more acutely felt than Afghanistan with eight journalists and four other media workers killed, a
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Berichterstattung über öffentliche Proteste in Kasachstan: Medienkontrolle als Quelle politischer Macht
Zentralasien-Analysen, issue 138 (2019), pp. 2-5
"Die Berichterstattung der kasachstanischen Massenmedien über Proteste im Lande folgt einer klaren Linie. Kleinere Proteste werden ignoriert. Wenn über größere Demonstrationen berichtet wird, kommen ihre Vertreter nicht zu Wort und ihre Forderungen werden nicht erwähnt. Stattdessen werden der i
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