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Étude sur le développement des médias en Haïti: Basée sur les indicateurs de développement des médias de l’UNESCO
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 75 pp.
"L’État peine à protéger les journalistes. Les attaques contre eux sont fréquentes et leurs auteurs sont rarement traduits en justice. Une insécurité qui renforce la précarité des journalistes, par ailleurs peu rémunérés, pas toujours formés, et souvent contraints d’exercer simultan
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Privacy Imperilled: Analysis of Surveillance, Encryption and Data Localisation Laws in Africa
CIPESA (2022), 67 pp.
"In the past few years, many countries across the continent have enacted various laws that permit surveillance, mandate telecommunication intermediaries to facilitate the interception of communication, stipulate the mandatory collection of biometric data, limit the use of encryption, require the loc
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Global Study: Gender Equality and Media Regulation
Deep Insights
Fojo Media Institute (2022), 75 pp.
"This study is unique in its attempt to map both law and policy (regulation and self-regulation) and identify measures to promote gender equality in the media and women’s freedom of expression. The study covers policy instruments adopted at international, regional, national, industry and media hou
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Media Governance: A Cosmopolitan Critique
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xv, 318 pp.
"The book offers a critical map to navigate the field of media governance. A thread of cosmopolitan critique connects the fourteen chapters to enhance media governance literature beyond the West and regional foci. The first part addresses the epistemological and ontological flaws in the use and adap
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Post-2018 Media Landscape in Ethiopia: A Review
Center for the Advancement of Rights and Democracy (CARD) (2022), v, 46 pp.
"The advancement of digital technologies, political and legal changes, and the growth in the number of journalism schools in Ethiopia have generally contributed to the overall growth of media outlets and media workers. However, there is no comprehensive source of information that shows the impact of
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Understanding the Laws Relating to "Fake News" in Russia
Thomson Reuters Foundation; Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (2022), 16 pp.
"This guide is intended to provide user-friendly, practical guidance for journalists and newsrooms seeking to understand the Russian “fake news” laws, and how they’ve been applied to local and international press." (Page 1)
Aporte de los medios comunitarios para el derecho a la comunicación: Apuntes urgentes para el debate legislativo en Ecuador
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2022), 23 pp.
"El presente artículo plantea la necesidad de entender de manera integral el derecho a la comunicación y de recopilar los puntos que, desde el sector de medios comunitarios, se consideran fundamentales para que no existan retrocesos en la legislación de comunicación." (Página 2)
Assessment of Media Development in Ethiopia: Based on UNESCO's Media Development Indicators
Paris; Addis Ababa: UNESCO (2022), 131 pp.
"In a country like Ethiopia which is rich in languages, politics, cultures, and values and which experiences an exponentially growing population, media and the access to plural information is crucial for peace and development. This study finds, however, that the number of media and the diversity of
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The State of Media Freedom and Safety of Journalists in Africa
Deep Insights
CIPESA (2022), 57 pp.
"This report seeks to serve two purposes. The first is to research and document the state of media freedom and safety of journalists in Africa and to provide specific and evidence-based recommendations to guide policy makers, media development organisations and other media freedom and human rights a
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African Media Barometer: Namibia 2022
Windhoek: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2022), 83 pp.
"On the surface, Namibia’s stellar reputation as the beacon of media freedom remains intact, but the role of the Fourth Estate in speaking truth to power is gradually being eroded as state officials become increasingly intolerant of the media in Namibia. The perceptible decline in the media landsc
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Assessment of Media Development in Malawi: Based on UNESCO's Media Development Indicators
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 157 pp.
"Malawi has seen an exponential growth of its media, both in quality and quantity. For example, there were only two broadcasting stations at the start of the 1990s, while Malawi has increased this over the years to 57 radio stations and 14 television broadcasters. Although the plurality of Malawi’
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Assessment of Media Development in The Gambia: Based on UNESCO's Media Development Indicators
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 86 pp.
"Although some planned reforms announced since 2017 concerning the rights to freedom of expression and others are yet to be finalized, the report finds that the media environment has improved considerably since the new government came into power. In the context of a rising internet penetration rate,
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"The purpose of this ITP and this reference book material, is to look at ways to strengthen independent journalism with a “public interest” mission, both through voluntary self-regulation and a better un derstanding of official oversight and legal safeguards for the news media, in all its differ
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Matriz de influencia de medios: Argentina. Gobierno, política y regulación
Budapest: Center for Media, Data and Society (CMDS) (2022), 35 pp.
"En Argentina la libertad de expresión está garantizada oficialmente desde la sanción de la primera constitución en 1853. Los medios de comunicación operan en un marco formal de libertad, no exenta de presiones por parte del Estado y de los intereses comerciales. La prensa escrita no cuenta con
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Assessment of Media Development in Sudan 2019-2020: Based on UNESCO's Media Development Indicators
Paris: UNESCO (2022), 107 pp.
"The research data reveal that Sudan at the time had at least 10 media-related laws in place that do not meet international standards. At the same time, the country had the benefit of an infrastructure of 30 institutions offering media education and training. Sudan has an opportunity to restructure
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"Although the share of countries with limits on the publication of pre-election polls has dropped to 46%, an additional 24 countries (15%) do not permit election polling at all. Governments in one-third of countries officially regulate polls. More than one in four countries have taboos on publishing
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Politics and Journalism in Francophone Africa: Systems, Practices and Identities
Deep Insights
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xxvii, 347 pp.
"This book provides a comprehensive approach of the media, journalism and politics in Sub-Saharan Francophone Africa. The author argues that there are common features that the media and journalism share in the seventeen countries of Francophone Africa and these make the local media systems different
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