Journalists' Safety & Resilience
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Safety of Journalists, Safety Risks of Media Workers
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Harassment & Intimidation of Journalists
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Journalists Dealing with Risks & Threats, Resilience & Wellbeing of Media Workers
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Female Journalists & Media Workers
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Safety of Journalists: Law & Public Policies
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Conflict Reporting, Armed Conflict Reporting
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Media Freedom, Press Freedom
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Violence Against Journalists & Media Personnel
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Killings of Journalists & Media Personnel
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Self-Censorship
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Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists & Media Personnel
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Working Conditions of Journalists & Media Personnel
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War Reporting
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Media Assistance: Freedom of Expression & Safety of Journalists
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Cybersecurity, Digital Safety, Privacy, Right to Privacy
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Journalism Education & Training
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Journalism, Media & Communication
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Press Freedom & Communication Rights Violations
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Surveillance, Surveillance Technologies, Spyware
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Foreign Correspondents
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Investigative Journalism
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Humanitarian Law
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Gender-Based Harassment, Intimidation & Violence
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Gender-Based Online Harassment & Sexual Threats
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Human Rights Protection
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Censorship
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Protests, Protest Movements, Protest Reporting & Media Representation
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United Nations Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity
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Crime & Violence Reporting
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Media Law & Regulation: International Standards & Practices
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Media Law & Regulation
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Freedom of Expression
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Election Reporting
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Cyberbullying, Cyberharassment
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Countering Defamation & Harassment
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COVID-19 Communication
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Local Journalism
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Conflict Areas: Media Systems, Media Landscapes, Role of Media
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United Nations (UN)
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Photojournalism
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Editorial Independence
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Foreign Conflict Reporting, International War Reporting
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Media Viability & Financial Sustainability
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Journalism Ethics
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Emergency Medical Aid
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UNESCO
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Freelance Journalists & Media Workers
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Journalists: Professional Identity & Values
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Access to Public Information, Freedom of Information, Right to Information
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Advocacy
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Authoritarian Regimes: Government Communication Strategies
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Exile Journalism, Exile Media
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Freedom of Expression Principles
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Trauma: Media Representation & Reporting
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Journalistic Social Media Use
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Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Reporting
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Council of Europe
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Journalism Education Curricula
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Stringers & Fixers (Journalism)
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Diversity & Pluralism in Media / Communication
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Human Rights Violations
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Police
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Democracy / Democratization and Media
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Research in Media & Communication
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Open Data
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Authoritarian Regimes, Dictatorships
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Authoritarian Regimes: Media Systems & Landscapes
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Freedom of Expression Lobbying & Communication Rights Campaigning
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Indirect Censorship, Soft Censorship
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Military: Communication Strategies & Practices
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Community Radios
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Iraq War (2003)
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Conflict-Sensitive & Peace Journalism
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Extremism & Terrorism Reporting
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Trauma, Coping with Trauma, Trauma Therapy
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Countering Hate Speech, Disinformation & Propaganda
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Documenting Human Rights Violations
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Transnational Journalism Cooperation & News Exchange
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Journalism
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Media Reporting, Reporting on Journalism & Communication Issues
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Television Journalism
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Media Landscapes, Media Systems, Media Situation in General
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Caruana Galizia, Daphne (1964-2017)
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Corruption & Combating Corruption
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Civic Engagement, Citizen Participation, Civil Society & Media
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Media Advocacy, Media Activism
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Political Cartoons & Comics
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Film Actors, Directors & Producers, Filmmakers
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Data Protection: Law & Regulation
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Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP)
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Crisis Communication
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Citizen Journalism, Community Journalism
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Genocides
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Russia-Ukraine War <2014-
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Digital Journalism, Online Journalism
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Minority Journalists
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Climate Change Communication, Climate Journalism
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Defamation Law & Regulation
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Good Practice Examples
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Indigenous Journalists & Communicators
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Russia: Foreign Information Operations, International Broadcasting, Public Diplomacy
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Transnational & Comparative Communication Research
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European Union (EU)
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UNESCO & IPDC Media Assistance
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Associations & Networks of Journalists
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Reporters Sans Frontièrs
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Journalists
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Exiled Journalists
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Local Communication & Media
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Migration & Refugees Reporting & (Social) Media Representation
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Conflict & War Photography
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Populism
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Research Methods
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Crimes, Criminality, Organized Crime
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Disappeared People, Missing People
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Networks & Networking
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User-Generated Contents
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Access to Information Laws, Right to Information Regulation
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Advocacy Campaigns
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Digital Activism, Cyber Advocacy
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Film & Video Advocacy / Activism
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Audience Feedback, Interaction & Participation
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Trust in the Media, Credibility of Media
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Authoritarian Regimes: Transnational Repression
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Independent & Oppositional Media in Authoritarian Regimes
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Election Campaigns
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Documentaries, Television Documentaries, Web Documentaries
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Media / Communication Control
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Censorship Circumvention Tools & Strategies
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Internet Censorship Circumvention Tools & Strategies
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OSCE Representative of Freedom of the Media
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Alternative Communication & Media
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Storytelling
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Conflicts: Victims' Perspectives
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Perpetrators
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Terrorism
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Boko Haram
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Gaza War (2023-)
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War Crimes
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Human Rights Protection & Violations: Media Representation & Reporting
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Violence in the Media
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Discourse & Discourse Analysis
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Media Criticism
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Theatre
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Financing Nonprofit Organizations
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International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
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Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
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Algorithms & Big Data
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Data Journalism, Computer-Assisted Investigative Reporting
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Digital Platform & Intermediaries Regulation
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Digital & Information Literacy
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Prisoners & Communication / Media
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Romani People
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Disaster & Humanitarian Crisis Communication
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Earthquakes, Floods, Tsunamis, Natural Disasters
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Disinformation & Misinformation Law & Regulation
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Identifying & Researching Disinformation
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Media Commercialisation
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Public Goods, Commons
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Sports Reporting
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Environmental Journalism
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Defamation, Libel, Slander
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Defamation: Effects on Victims
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Fact-Checking & Verification of Sources
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Self-Regulation of Media
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Evaluation Criteria, Evaluation Indicators
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Self-Assessment, Self-Evaluation
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Gender and Media, Gender and Communication
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Feminism & Communication
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Gender-Based Harassment, Intimidation & Violence: Media Representation & Reporting
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Gender Discrimination, Gender Inequalities
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Media Assistance: Gender Focus
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Mental Health (General)
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Foreign Countries: Reporting & Media Representation
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International Media Associations / Organizations
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Transnational Media Corporations, International Media Companies
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OSCE
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International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
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Journalism Studies & Research
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Journalism Studies: Research Projects
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Journalistic Quality
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Journalistic Skills
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Journalistic Style & Language
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News Agencies
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Newsroom Management
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Business & Economics Journalism
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Corruption Reporting & Role of Media in Curbing Corruption
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Court Reporting & Media Representation of Judicial System
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Death & Grief: Reporting & Media Representation
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Political Reporting
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Service Journalism, Consumer Information, Lifestyle Journalism
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Metaphors
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Local Television
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Media Assistance
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Media Assistance: Elections
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Media Assistance: Implementing Organizations
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International Media Support (IMS) (Media Development NGO, Denmark)
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Media Assistance: Journalists' Associations, Media Associations
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Media Assistance: Law & Regulation, Media Policy Consultancies
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Media Assistance: Media & Information Literacy
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Media Development Indicators
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Media & Communication Policies
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Media & Information Literacy
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Post-Socialist Media Systems & Landscapes
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Transition Countries: Media Systems & Media Landscapes
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Criminal Law & Criminal Prosecution
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Internet Governance, Internet Policies
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Law, Legislation, Judiciary (General)
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Law & Regulation: Protection of Confidential Sources & Whistleblowers
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Forced Migration, Forced Displacement
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Khashoggi, Jamal (1958-2018)
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Photographers
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Military
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Hindu Nationalism
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Political Extremism
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Right-Wing Extremism
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Security
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Personal Safety
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Media Capture, Vested Political & Other Interests in the Media
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Kompas (Newspaper, Indonesia)
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Public Media, State Media
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Emotions in the Media, Emotional Functions & Messages of Media
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Memory, Memorizing
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Mental Stress
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Fundamentalisms (Religious)
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Islamist Communications & Media
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Communication & Media Indicators
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Communication & Media Research Associations & Networks
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Digital Sources
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Political Indicators
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Assassination
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Human Security
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Rohingya
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Resilience
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Blockchain Technologies
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Open Source Software
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Telecommunication Law, Regulation & Policies
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Al-Jazeera
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Theories of Communication & Media
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"This second volume focuses on primary trauma experienced by journalists, with a particular focus on the gendered dimensions, as shared by female journalists and researchers. By focusing on female journalists’ firsthand encounters, the book explores the complex psychological, emotional, and profes ... more
"This report presents findings from the third wave of the Worlds of Journalism Study (WJS3), conducted between 2021 and 2025. In this iteration, we focused on journalists’ perceptions of risk and uncertainty in their profession and sought to identify key factors that shape how journalists navigate ... more
"With this Policy Manual, we provide guidance for building an information space free from oligopolistic control, resilient to manipulation, and supportive of independent, pluralistic media. This Policy Manual proposes both structural reforms and targeted mitigation measures – focusing on media vis ... more
"During the COVID-19 crisis, journalists doubled efforts to keep societies informed, safe, and disease-free. The study examines and compares specific challenges that journalists, based in diverse world regions, confronted during the COVID-19 pandemic. A survey was conducted with 215 journalists work ... more
"The article outlines an evidence-informed approach for enhancing resilience, one of the key personal resources in labor, and explores the viability of this training for increasing journalists’ ability to manage everyday work-related stressors. The suggested pedagogy is in the form of a microinter ... more
"Following the conservative Turkish government’s political-economic capture of the news media, educated and pro-feminist women journalists have migrated online. Despite having more publicity across platforms, they face immediate prosecution based on the tweet of an anonymous troll, an informant ci ... more

Digital Surveillance, Online and Offline Harassment, and Feminist Media Politics

In: Patterns of Harassment in African Journalism
Lungile Augustine Tshuma; Trust Matsilele; Mbongeni Jonny Msimanga; Sadia Jamil (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2024), pp. 88-106
"This chapter examines the digital surveillance and harassment experiences faced by female journalists in Zimbabwe in the 2023 pre-election period covering the year 2022 up to August 2023. The examination is based on interviews conducted with seven purposefully selected female reporters and editors ... more
"Journalists play a crucial role in disseminating information and ensuring transparency in society. However, in many regions around the world, journalists face significant risks and threats to their safety, hindering their ability to fulfill their professional duties effectively. This article focuse ... more
"This paper examines the current state of legal protections for journalists in China, focusing on the challenges they face and proposing comprehensive recommendations to enhance press freedom. It analyzes the historical evolution of these protections, the existing legal framework, and compares them ... more

Threats to press freedom and journalists' safety: A comparative study of Greece, Slovakia, and Spain

In: Media Pluralism in the Digital Era
Elda Brogi; Iva Nenadic; Pier Luigi Parcu (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2024), pp. 49-63
"Free journalism is indispensable for monitoring the actions of political representation, holding it accountable, exposing the misuse of power, and defending public interests. Fulfilling these roles assumes that journalists can do their job and pursue public-interest stories to the best of their abi ... more

Independent Online Journalists' Harassment and the Emotional Repercussions

In: Patterns of Harassment in African Journalism
Lungile Augustine Tshuma; Trust Matsilele; Mbongeni Jonny Msimanga; Sadia Jamil (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2024), pp. 109-123
"Communication the world over is a vital cog in communities. The sender and the receiver play different and complementary roles in information dissemination. Be that as it may, many contemporary information senders are faced with different forms of harassment. The advent of social media has seen a r ... more

Journalists' Repression, Harassment and Attacks in Eswatini and Botswana

In: Patterns of Harassment in African Journalism
Lungile Augustine Tshuma; Trust Matsilele; Mbongeni Jonny Msimanga; Sadia Jamil (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2024), pp. 124-140
"Amid growing threats to journalists around the world, this study examines the nature of repression, harassment and attacks on full-time employed journalists and freelance writers in Eswatini. Given that harassment ranges from doxing, surveillance, religious prejudice, threats to harm family members ... more

Gendered Threats and Attacks in and outside the Newsroom: Nigerian Female Journalists' Experiences with Harassment

In: Patterns of Harassment in African Journalism
Lungile Augustine Tshuma; Trust Matsilele; Mbongeni Jonny Msimanga; Sadia Jamil (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2024), pp. 67-87
"This chapter explores Nigerian female journalists’ lived experiences with harassment in and outside the newsroom. Using a qualitative approach, 12 in-depth interviews were conducted with female journalists in broadcast media houses in Nigeria, and themes that emerged from the data obtained via in ... more
"This volume presents an analytical and empirical overview of the array of issues that the Mexican media faces in the post-authoritarian age, which jointly explains how a partially accomplished democracy, its authoritarian inertias, and its unintended consequences hinder the democratic performance o ... more
"This study used in-depth interviews and focus groups of editors and journalists in Kenya (N*=*55) to show how news organizations fail to prioritize gender equality. All participants identified a gendered hierarchy in newsrooms, which participants believed connects to other inequalities such as stor ... more

Emergent Forms and Patterns of Online Harassment of Women Journalists in African countries

In: Patterns of Harassment in African Journalism
Lungile Augustine Tshuma; Trust Matsilele; Mbongeni Jonny Msimanga; Sadia Jamil (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2024), pp. 49-66
"The internet and digital platforms have contributed to the democratisation of the public sphere. A number of studies have shown how the internet and new digital platforms have brought subaltern voices into the mainstream. However, recent studies show that on the flip side, the cybersphere also prom ... more

Psychological Aid and Training for Journalists Who Face Continued Emotionally Demanding Environments: The Case of Venezuelan Journalists

In: Handbook of Applied Journalism: Theory and Practice
Leon Barkho; Jairo Alfonso Lugo-Ocando; Sadia Jamil (eds.)
Cham: Springer (2024), pp. 301-315
"Journalism, particularly in conflict reporting, poses significant emotional challenges, with journalists often grappling with post-traumatic stress disorder and other traumas. This research delves into the emotional dimensions of journalistic practice, examining journalists’ perspectives on menta ... more
"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 ... more

Safety of journalists: The symbolic violence and double burden of marginalized journalists

In: The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies
Scott A. II Eldridge; David Cheruiyot; Sandra Banjac; Joëlle Swart (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2024), 10 pp.
"Journalists have always worked amidst risks to their safety; risks that have become all the more exacerbated in the digital age. Scholarship has documented journalists confronting cyberattacks, various forms of harassment, verbal abuse and hate speech, as well as legal threats from a variety of act ... more