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"There are considerable regional variations in media exposure across and within African countries. Take access to daily radio news bulletins, which is higher in Southern Africa (except Lesotho) than in West Africa: whereas 71 percent of South Africans listen to radio news daily, only 44 percent of N ... more

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Access to the Airwaves: Principles on Freedom of Expression and Broadcast Regulation

London: Article 19 (2002), 23 pp.

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Freedom as a Value in Arab Media: Perceptions and Attitudes Among Journalists

Amin Hussein

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 ... more

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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 ... more

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Media Advocacy Toolkit: Course Workbook

Windhoek: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2002), 80 pp.

"This course is designed to help you to sharpen your media advocacy skills. It is made up of two 2-day workshops. During the first workshop, you will explore the meaning of advocacy. You will also consider the importance of finding and including women’s voices in the media you produce. On Day 2 yo ... more

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Antipress Violence and the Crisis of the State

Silvio Waisbord

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 ... more

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Freedom of the Press Throughout the World

Paris: Reporters Sans Frontières (2002), 671 pp.

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The MISA Media Advocacy Toolkit: Resource Book

John Barker, Andrew Couldridge

Windhoek: Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA) (2002), 120 pp.

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Access to Information in Southeast Asia and Beyond

Sven Hamrell, Niclas Hällström, Olle Nordberg (eds.)

Development Dialogue (Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation), issue 1 (2002), pp. 3-116

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‘Enough is Enough’: An ethnography of the struggle against impunity in Burkina Faso

Sten Hagberg

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 ... more

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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.