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Negotiating Journalism: Core Values and Cultural Diversities
Göteborg: Nordicom (2017), 170 pp.
An Attack on One is an Attack on All: Successful Initiatives to Protect Journalists and Combat Impunity
Inspiring Practice
Paris: UNESCO (2017), 98 pp.
"This report takes a look at a selection of the innovative, successful ways media companies, individual journalists and civil society organizations are coming together to improve journalist safety. These are cases of people taking the initiative, of acting on behalf of the profession, of not sitting
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Canaries in a coal-mine? What the killings of journalists tell us about future repression
Journal of Peace Research, volume 54, issue 2 (2017), pp. 157-174
"[...] To test the argument whether the killing of journalists is a precursor to increasing repression, we introduce a new global dataset on killings of journalists between 2002 and 2013 that uses three different sources that track such events across the world. The new data show that mostly local jo
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Journalist Killings and the Responsibility to Report
In: The Assault on Journalism. Building Knowledge to Protect Freedom of Expression
Ulla Carlsson; Reeta Pöyhtäri (eds.)
Göteborg: Nordicom (2017), pp. 21-32
"More journalists are being killed and threatened around the world than at any time before. How do we account for these disturbing trends and why do journalists increasingly put themselves in harm’s way? This chapter argues that if we are to better understand the motivations of journalists and the
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The Assault on Journalism. Building Knowledge to Protect Freedom of Expression
Top Insights
Göteborg: Nordicom (2017), 363 pp.
"To support joint efforts to protect journalism, there is a growing need for research-based knowledge. Acknowledging this need, the aim of this publication is to highlight and fuel journalist safety as a field of research, to encourage worldwide participation, as well as to inspire further dialogues
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The Safety of Journalists and the Danger of Impunity: Report by the Director-General to the Intergovernmental Council of the IPDC (thirtieth Session)
Top Insights
UNESCO, International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) (2016), 67 pp.
"This report provides an overview of a decade of killings of journalists, media workers and social media producers, between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2015. The extent of the risks faced by those exercising their right to express opinions and disseminate information is demonstrated by the figure
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"Like Fish in Poisonous Waters": Attacks on Media Freedom in Somalia
New York: Human Rights Watch (2016), 85 pp.
"This report focuses on abuses by state and non-state actors against journalists and other media workers since 2014. It is based on over 50 interviews with journalists working throughout south-central Somalia and Puntland, the semi-autonomous state in northeastern Somalia. Beyond killings, attempted
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Reporting is Becoming a Life Threatening Profession in Pakistan
Ma’arif Research Journal, volume 12 (2016), pp. 103-116
"The study is focusing ‘Reporting is becoming a life threatening profession in Pakistan’ as a topic for research. International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) declared Pakistan as one of the most dangerous countries for Journalists. Amnesty International called Khuzdar ‘a graveyard for Journa
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Reporting Dangerously: Journalist Killings, Intimidation and Security
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
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Periodismo muerto: Más de mil periodistas asesinados en América Latina (1970-2015)
Top Insights
México, DF: Editorial Planeta Mexicana (2016), 389 pp.
"Más de 1050 periodistas asesinados y desaparecidos (unos 22,8 casos al año) hicieron de América Latina el escenario más peligroso del mundo para el ejercicio profesional, entre 1970 y 2015, incluso en países sin guerras oficialmente aceptadas. Desde las dictaduras hasta el narcopoder, desde M
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Press Freedom, Governance, and Culture of Impunity: The Alarming Case of the Philippines
4th International Conference on Magsaysay Awardees: Good Governance and Transformative Leadership in Asia (2016), pp. 225-234
"Ending the culture of impunity requires strengthening the culture of resistance. Impunity results in the dearth or absence of press freedom which, in turn, has deleterious effects on the practice of journalism as the people are deprived of relevant information that could help shape public opinion.
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Journalists and Media Staff Killed 1990 -2015: 25 Years of Contribution Towards Safer Journalism
Brussels: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2016), 83 pp.
"The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has been publishing annual reports, of which this is the 25th, focusing on killing of journalists and media staff in work-related incidents since 1990. To date, the IFJ has recorded at least 2297 killings of these media professionals in targeted ass
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Mexican Journalism, Still in the Line of Fire
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
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Violencia y periodismo regional en México
México: Juan Pablos Editor (2015), 458 pp.
"La temporalidad del presente estudio comprende el periodo 2006-2015, que corresponde a los sexenios de Felipe Calderón Hinojosa y una parte del de Enrique Peña Nieto, periodo en el que, según muestran los informes de agencias nacionales e internacionales, la violencia contra los periodistas en e
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Mossul Journalists Are Dying Amid Resounding Silence
Reporters Without Borders (2015), 13 pp.
"Since the group calling itself “the Islamic State” (or “Islamic State of Iraq and AlSham”, ISIS) took control of Mosul in June 2014, this Iraqi city turned into a death trap for journalists, especially after the jihadist militant group seized all local media, getting hold of the full lists
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La palabra y el silencio: La violencia contra periodistas en Colombia (1977-2015)
Bogotá: Centro Nacional de Memoria Histórica (2015), 400 pp.
Medio siglo de agresiones a periodistas: Síntesis estadística de asesinatos y desapariciones en América Latina (1970-2015)
Contratexto (Universidad de Lima), issue 24 (2015), pp. 171-201
"Desde 1970, hay constancia en América Latina de más de mil periodistas asesinados o desaparecidos forzados, por razones que han variado a lo largo del tiempo. Desde las medidas represivas propias del terrorismo de Estado, en los años de las dictaduras militares, a la conjunción actual de circun
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War on the Media: Journalists Under Attack in Libya
Human Rights Watch (2015), 50 pp.
"This report documents attacks against journalists and the offices and facilities of media outlets since the 2011 uprising, including threats, assaults, kidnappings, and killings and addresses the failure of the government to protect journalists and the media, and hold perpetrators of attacks on the
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The New Censorship: Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom
New York: Columbia University Press (2015), x, 236 pp.
"Drawing on his experience defending journalists on the front lines, Joel Simon calls for a global freedom-of-expression agenda. He proposes ten key priorities, including combating the murder of journalists, ending censorship, and a global free-expression charter to challenge the criminal and corrup
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The Road to Justice: Breaking the Cycle of Impunity in the Killing of Journalists
New York: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (2014), 47 pp.
"CPJ’s analysis of global rates of impunity in journalist killings over the past seven years shows that they have for the most part gotten worse. There are some encouraging signs in the data. The number of convictions of suspects behind these crimes appears to be slightly on the rise, but thi s nu
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