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Syrian Refugee Journalists Leaving ... To Tell the Tale

Mansour Omari

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2016), 16 pp.

"After the Syrian uprising morphed into an armed struggle, the Syrian government increasingly lost control over vast areas of territory. With the loss of State control, its imposed rule on media faded, enabling media to flourish in those areas. In territories it still controlled, its grip became eve ... more

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Venezuela bajo la revolución bolivariana: Medios de comunicación y libertad de expresión

Andrés Cañizález

Buenos Aires: Fundación Cadal (2016), 155 pp.

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Writing on the Wall: Disappeared Booksellers and Free Expression in Hong Kong

Hong Kong: PEN AMERICA (2016), 71 pp.

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Programa de protección para periodistas: Guía práctica

Caracas: Espacio Público (2016), 59 pp.

"La finalidad de este texto es que pueda servir para tener un protocolo rápido de acción para los casos que se describen, para la protección de los profesionales de la comunicación. Sin embargo, es necesario subrayar la importancia de contactar a una organización de derechos humanos ante cualqu ... more

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A Comparative Analysis of Media Freedom and Pluralism in the EU Member States

Petra Bárd, Judit Bayer et al.

European Union (2016), 185 pp.

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State of Emergency in Turkey: The Impact on Freedom of the Media

London: Article 19 (2016), 23 pp.

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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

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Critics Are Not Criminals: Comparative Study of Criminal Defamation Laws in the Americas

Thomson Reuters Foundation (2016), 131 pp.

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Understanding the Use of Circumvention Tools to Bypass Online Censorship

Yi Mou, Kevin Wu, David Atkin

New Media & Society, volume 18, issue 5 (2016), pp. 837-856

"Circumvention tools designed to bypass online censorship such as simple web proxies, virtual private network service, and so on are frequently used in countries whose governments impose heavy Internet censorship. Around 18 million Internet users in China are currently using those tools to bypass th ... more

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State of Internet Freedom in Africa 2016: Case Studies from Selected Countries on Strategies African Governments Use to Stifle Citizens' Digital Rights

Kampala: CIPESA (2016), 29 pp.

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Assessing Apostasy, Blasphemy and Excommunication (takfir) in Islam and Their Modern Application by States and Non State Actors

Masaki Nagata

London: Brunel University, Doctoral Thesis (2016), x, 437 pp.

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Darkened Screen: Constraints on Foreign Journalists in China

New York: PEN America (2016), 75 pp.

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Egypt's Blasphemy Laws

Washington, DC: Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (2016), 5 pp.

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"Keep the People Uninformed": Pre-Election Threats to Free Expression and Association in Uganda

Human Rights Watch (2016), 42 pp.

"[This publication] documents harassment and intimidation by government and ruling party officials against the media and civil society, particularly outside the capital, Kampala. The police, district officials, internal security officials, and the country’s broadcasting regulator visited and calle ... more

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Freedom of the Press 2016: The Battle for the Dominant Message

Jennifer Dunham

Washington, DC: Freedom House (2016), 28 pp.

"Global press freedom declined to its lowest point in 12 years in 2015, as political, criminal, and terrorist forces sought to co-opt or silence the media in their broader struggle for power. The share of the world’s population that enjoys a Free press stood at just 13 percent, meaning fewer than ... more

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Rise in Censorship of the Internet and Social Media in Africa

William Gumede

Journal of African Media Studies, volume 8, issue 3 (2016), pp. 413-421

"African autocratic regimes have fallen through opposition waged by ordinary citizens through the new platforms of mobile phones, the Internet and social media. It is not surprising therefore that autocratic African leaders and governments will want to restrict these platforms. African governments h ... more

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Mexican Journalism, Still in the Line of Fire

Rosario Carmona

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2016), 9 pp.

"Sadly, attacks on journalists in Mexico are nothing new. In April 2012, CIMA published a report detailing the violence against the media and recommending steps that the Mexican government could take in order to remedy the situation. The government of Mexico did enact some measures to protect journa ... more

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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

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Who Owns the World's Media? Media Concentration and Ownership Around the World
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Eli M. Noam (ed.)

Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press (2016), xix, 1412 pp.

"Media concentration has been an issue around the world. To some observers the power of large corporations has never been higher. To others, the Internet has brought openness and diversity. What perspective is correct? The answer has significant implications for politics, business, culture, regulati ... more

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Ongoing and Submitted Projects in the Field of Media and Freedom of Expression Online and Offline: From 1 May 2016 to 30 September 2016

Council of Europe (2016), 29 pp.

Who Owns the World's Media? Media Concentration and Ownership Around the World Top Insights

Who Owns the World's Media? Media Concentration and Ownership Around the World
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