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Unveiling journalistic resilience: A blueprint for future crises
Journalism, volume 26, issue 11 (2024), pp. 2480-2499
"This research article presents an examination of the findings and recommendations drawn from a series of focus group discussions (FGDs) with senior journalists. The main aim was to develop a strategy to safeguard the skills and well-being of journalists in the face of potential future pandemics or
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‘We’re Losing Our Bread and Butter Like Never Before’: Journalism in Bangladesh in the Face of the COVID-19 Pandemic
In: Communicating COVID-19: Media, Trust, and Public Engagement
Palgrave Macmillan (2024), pp. 65-82
"The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an increased challenge for journalists and media professionals worldwide. However, there is a lack of information on these adversities in many developing countries, including Bangladesh. Our study aims to explore these challenges and risks associated with journalism
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First be safe: Exploring and improving journalists’ skills in digital security
Journalism, volume 26, issue 8 (2024), pp. 1742-1760
"Despite the scientific significance of journalism practice, the gap between academic and applied fields persists. In this paper, based on our project on the digital security of journalists and their sources, we argue that practice-relevant research in the form of the action-innovation model benefit
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Safety Resources
Key Guides
Acos Alliance (2024)
"Our resources include a curated selection of the most practical safety guides from ACOS signatories and partners, alongside specially-designed tools and templates for journalists, editors and newsrooms." (https://www.acosalliance.org/resources)
Global Journalism in Comparative Perspective: Case Studies
London; New York: Routledge (2024), xvii, 251 pp.
"This book explores how journalism is practiced around the world and how there are multiple factors at the structural and contextual level shaping journalism practice. Drawing on case studies of how conflicts, pandemics, political developments, or human rights violations are covered in an online-fir
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Patterns of Harassment in African Journalism
New York: Routledge (2024), xvii, 251 pp.
"Drawing from case studies from selected African countries, an international team of authors offer a broad insight into the state of harassment across the continent, while building new theoretical perspectives that are also context-specific. The chapters bring previous theories and research up to da
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Safety policy: Creating a safe working environment for journalists
Amsterdam: Free Press Unlimited (2024), 13 pp.
"In the next five years, Free Press Unlimited will work towards the following five goals to enhance the safety of media professionals:
1. Media professionals supported by Free Press Unlimited programmes are able to deal effectively with interference and threats at a physical, digital, legal and psy
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Press Freedom Under Siege: Women Journalists in Mexico
Potsdam: Friedrich Naumann Foundation; Article 19 (2024), 15 pp.
"The abuse and harassment against women journalists has become increasingly frequent and more coordinated in Mexico. As demonstrated throughout this study, it aims to threaten, silence, and stigmatize women journalists, with the potential to keep them out of public spaces. Despite the importance of
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Journalists' safety before the 2024 elections
Tbilisi: Center for Media Information and Social Research; DW Akademie (2024), 21 pp.
Freedom of Afghan Media: Challenges facing Afghan journalists in Afghanistan and abroad
Journalists for Human Rights (JHR) (2024), 38 pp.
"Erosion of Media Freedom in Afghanistan: Since the Taliban regained power in August 2021, media freedom in Afghanistan has drastically declined. Over half of the country's media outlets have closed, leading to widespread unemployment among journalists. The Taliban's media policies enforce strict ce
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Le journalisme sénégalais a la croisée des chemins
Paris: Reporters Sans Frontières (2024), 27 pp.
Insurgency in northeast Nigeria: Are journalists safe to report?
Journalism, volume 26, issue 6 (2024), pp. 1288-1306
"This article interrogates the effectiveness of the safety measures available for journalists in the challenging operational environment. The researchers conducted in-depth interviews with 16 journalists representing different organisations from the conflict-prone areas in northeast Nigeria. Finding
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Reporting the MENA as Conflict: Political Influences, Routine Practices, and Journalists' Struggles in the Field
In: The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South
London; New York: Routledge (2023), pp. 260-268
"Working in a conflict-ridden region, journalists in the Middle East have always struggled to report fairly and accurately while keeping in mind the power structures in their countries. For these journalists, practicing journalism in mostly authoritative governments has meant facing additional hurdl
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Journalists’ Workplace Safety Protection during Demonstrations
Integration Proceeding, volume 1, issue 1 (2023), pp. 183-187
"In terms of connecting his life every human being needs a job. Human life is considered more prosperous when getting a decent job. Workers in carrying out their work in addition to getting wages, of course, need to get legal protection and work safety protection. There are many workers who work in
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Assessing safety of journalism practice in Ghana: Key stakeholders’ perspectives
Cogent Social Sciences, volume 9, issue 1: 2225836 (2023), 16 pp.
"This study sought to use the self-reporting method of survey as well as key informant interviews to investigate the depth and spread of the problem. A total of 115 respondents took part in the survey. Additionally, eight interviews were conducted with key stakeholders. The study found that the most
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The struggle for authority and legitimacy: Lifestyle and political journalists’ discursive boundary work
Journalism, volume 24, issue 10 (2023), pp. 2155–2173
"Scholarship has pointed to an artificial hierarchy between political and lifestyle journalism that is rooted in norms and values stemming from Western-liberal thought. Within this distinction, lifestyle journalism has been subordinated as occupying a marginal or peripheral position in the field. Ye
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