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‘Lockdown’ on Digital Journalism? Mapping Threats to Press Freedom During the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis
Digital Journalism, volume 9, issue 9 (2021), pp. 1344-1366
"Across the globe, governments have issued emergency and drastic measures aimed at tracking the spread of COVID-19 and safeguarding public health. Notwithstanding the necessity and importance of some of these measures, this work argues that numerous governments around the world used the pandemic cri
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How COVID Drove the Evolution of Fact-Checking
Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review, volume 2, issue 3 (2021), 23 pp.
"With the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic came a flood of novel misinformation. Ranging from harmless false cures to dangerous rhetoric targeting minorities, coronavirus-related misinformation spread quickly wherever the virus itself did. Fact-checking organizations around the world took up the
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Media and Freedom of Expression
International Reports (Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung), volume 37, issue 3 (2021), pp. 2-99
Repression and Resilience: Diagnosing Closing Space Mid-Pandemic
Brussels: European Partnership for Democracy (EPD) (2021), 46 pp.
Reclaiming the Public Sphere in a Global Health Crisis
Javnost: The Public, volume 28, issue 2 (2021), pp. 111-235
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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"This Situation Report on the “Impact of COVID-19 on Media Freedom, Media Business Viability, and the Safety of Journalists in Southeast Asia” offers an insight into the key impacts of the pandemic on the media across nine countries. The report proposes recommendations for enabling sustainable a
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African Media Barometer: South Africa 2021
Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2021), 54 pp.
"Since its adoption on 1 July 2020, the Protection of Personal Information Act has bolstered freedom of expression and the right to privacy. This legislation aims to protect citizens’ personal information and balance the right to privacy with other rights, such as access to information. In Februar
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Health and Safety Risks to Journalists During Pandemics
In: Handbook of Research on Discrimination, Gender Disparity, and Safety Risks in Journalism
Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2021), pp. 90-103
"Journalists play a critical role in the dissemination of health information to the public. This chapter explores the challenges created by COVID-19 for journalists in Pakistan. It also examines how the pandemic has shed light on the disparities and safety risks in the Pakistani journalism and expos
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"The road to creating a successful corporate culture in the new hybrid work era is lined with landmines, but it is also loaded with new opportunities for more diverse, more motivated, and more talented workforces. Financial sustainability was already a dicey challenge pre-Covid. Companies producing
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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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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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Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Media Sustainability in Latin America: Changes and Transformations in the Production Models, Sources of Income, and Products of Latin American Media
Montevideo: UNESCO (2021), 18 pp.
"The advertising market crisis, which is the primary source of income for the majority of the media sector, was widespread, but Latin America was the most affected region. Furthermore, forecasts indicate that it will take two years to recover and return to 2019 levels. In this environment, the digit
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Saving Journalism: A Vision for the Post-Covid World
Washington, DC: Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung (KAS) (2021), 36 pp.
"Dozens of plans to help save journalism have emerged since the Covid-19 pandemic decimated media outlets around the world. This report summarizes some of the trends we’ve seen and evaluates where they currently stand. Most promising are Australia’s efforts to get Google and Facebook to pay for
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COVID-19 and the Global Media Sector: Developments and Ways Forward
Bonn: Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2021), 7 pp.
"COVID-19 has taken a heavy toll on freedom of expression, access to information, and media freedom. Amidst an ongoing global decline in democratic freedoms, the pandemic has severely affected the work of media outlets and independent journalists. Functioning media are, however, a precondition for r
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Impact of Covid-19 on Media Sustainability
MISA-Zimbabwe (2021), 47 pp.
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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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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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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