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Face-to Face with COVID-19: Experiences of Ghanaian Frontline Journalists Infected with the Virus
"Journalists around the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Consequently, media houses have had to make drastic adjustments to the impact of challenges wrought by the pandemic on their operations. Ghanaian media houses also faced similar challenges and disruptions. News reporters and
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Journalism and Mental Health: Ugandan Journalists’ Perspectives
In: COVID-19 and the Media in Sub-Saharan Africa: Media Viability, Framing and Health Communication
Leeds: Emerald Publishing (2022), pp. 147-162
"In the midst of a public health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic, journalists play an important role of sharing information of consequence with the public. As first responders to precarious events, they work in close proximity to the threat they are reporting on yet at the same time struggle with
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Measuring Digital Development: Facts and Figures 2022
Deep Insights
Geneva: ITU (2022), iv, 26 pp.
"As the world welcomes its 8 billionth inhabitant, an estimated 5.3 billion people – roughly 66 per cent of the global population – are using the Internet. Yet some 2.7 billion people worldwide remain totally offline, with universal connectivity still a distant prospect in least developed countr
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Silenced and Misinformed: Freedom of Expression in Danger During COVID-19
London: Amnesty International (2021), 38 pp.
"[...] governments have put up barriers to activities like reporting and sharing opinions and used the pandemic as a pretext to muzzle critical voices. Amnesty International is concerned that Covid-19 related restrictions are not just temporary measures but are part of an ongoing onslaught on human
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Understanding Trust: Global Conversations & Local Realities During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Internews (2021), 20 pp.
"In this paper, we share selected insights from our work across seven countries facing complex and often protracted preexisting humanitarian crises before the pandemic. Over the past nine months, with Internews’ Rooted in Trust project, we have worked to understand the role of rumors and misinform
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Measuring Digital Development: Facts and Figures 2021
Geneva: ITU (2021), iv, 26 pp.
"An estimated 4.9 billion people are using the Internet in 2021, according to latest estimates in this 2021 edition of Measuring Digital Development: Facts and figures. That means that roughly 63 per cent of the world’s population is now online – an increase of 17 per cent – with almost 800 mi
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Let Free Media Thrive: Stories of Impact of the Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists
Paris: UNESCO (2021), 18 pp.
"The collection of stories presented here aims to highlight the impact of the MDP's (Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists) MDP’s actions over the course of this challenging year. Through testimonies from beneficiaries and partners who aspire to improve freedom o
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La radio: El medio de comunicación que llega al 80 % de personas diariamente
Lima: CPI (2021), 6 pp.
"La pandemia del Covid 19 generó notables cambios en los hábitos de consumo de las personas y su interacción con los medios. Como consecuencia del aislamiento social, las personas buscaron fuentes de información y entretenimiento confiables y de fácil acceso, por lo que la radio incrementó su
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Konstruktiv durch Krisen? Fallanalysen zum Corona-Journalismus
Frankfurt am Main: Otto Brenner Stiftung (2021), 96 pp.
"Unter dem Eindruck der Corona-Pandemie haben sich Medien nicht allein auf die Problemanalyse und Kritik an politischen und gesellschaftlichen Verhältnissen konzentriert, sondern den Blick auch nach vorn gerichtet, um zu fragen, wie politische, gesundheitliche, kulturelle und wirtschaftliche Risike
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Radio y coronavirus: Aprendizajes del medio de comunicación en tiempos de pandemia
[authors] (2021), 40 pp.
"Reflexionar sobre la radio en tiempos de coronavirus resulta sano y necesario para el medio de comunicación. ¿Cómo no registrar su comportamiento en un momento tan único para la humanidad? Ante la necesaria reflexión, se presentan 20 aprendizajes o desafíos para el más oral de los medios de
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How the COVID-19 Fight Has Hurt Digital Rights in East Africa
Kampala: CIPESA (2021), 12 pp.
COVID-19 from the Margins: Pandemic Invisibilities, Policies and Resistance in the Datafied Society
Amsterdam: Institute of Network Cultures (2021), 279 pp.
"In the first pandemic of the datafied society, the disempowered were denied a voice in the heavily quantified mainstream narrative. Featuring stories of invisibility, injustice, hope and resistance, this book gives voice to communities at the margins in the Global South and beyond. The multilingual
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The State of Radio in Uganda: A 2020 Review and the New Reality of COVID-19
Arcata, Calif.: Internews (2021), 51 pp.
"With over 309 licensed radio stations, numerous public and private TV stations, and rapid growth in internet accessibility and usage, the media landscape in Uganda is dynamic, diverse, and rapidly evolving. Ugandans across the country from rural villages to urban centers are presented increasingly
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Hungry for Content: How the COVID-19 Pandemic Changed Media Usage in the Middle East and North Africa
Stuttgart: Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (ifa) (2021), 5 pp.
"The pandemic marks a new technological milestone in audiences’ media usage and habits, one that has thus far been both positive – through the interconnectedness and agency – and negative – because of a lack of access for some – for cultural diversity and intercultural relations. The adopt
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Does a Crisis Change News Habits? A Comparative Study of the Effects of COVID-19 on News Media Use in 17 European Countries
Digital Journalism, volume 9, issue 9 (2021), pp. 1208-1238
"Exogenous shocks like the COVID-19 pandemic unleashes multiple fundamental questions about society beyond public health. Based on the classical concept of ‘need for orientation’ and the literature on the role of the media in times of crisis, we investigate to what extent the COVID-19 pandemic a
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Catalyst or Destabiliser? COVID-19 and its Impact on the Media Landscape Worldwide
Berlin: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2021), 159 pp.
"In terms of quality of media coverage, there are various outcomes: In Asia, for example, small and independent outlets, able to provide reliable information, gained momentum, whereas citizens in the MENA-region turned to social media in search of trustworthy facts on the coronavirus. In South-Easte
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Media and Freedom of Expression
International Reports (Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung), volume 37, issue 3 (2021), pp. 2-99
Coronavirus-Pandemie: Auswirkungen auf die Medienfreiheit in globaler Perspektive
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2021), 55 pp.
"Die Coronavirus-Pandemie hat sich in weiten Teilen der Welt negativ auf die Meinungs- und Medienfreiheit ausgewirkt. Betroffen sind viele Partnerländer der deutschen Entwicklungszusammenarbeit: Menschen können nicht auf relevante Informationen zugreifen, unter anderem, weil sie keinen adäquaten
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