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Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2022

Nic Newman, Richard Fletcher, Craig T. Robertson, Kirsten Eddy, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (eds.)
Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2022), 161 pp.
"Trust in the news has fallen in almost half the countries in our survey, and risen in just seven, partly reversing the gains made at the height of the Coronavirus pandemic. On average, around four in ten of our total sample (42%) say they trust most news most of the time. Finland remains the countr ... more
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Seeing the (In)justice of Sustainability: Visualizing Inequality at the Centre of Climate Change Communication

Journal of Environmental Media, volume 3, issue 1 (2022), pp. 3-186
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The Chilling: A Global Study of Online Violence Against Women Journalists
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Julie Posetti, Nabeelah Shabbir (eds.)
International Center for Journalists (ICFJ); UNESCO (2022), 325 pp.
"This ground-breaking three-year global study on gender-based online violence against women journalists represents collaborative research covering 15 countries. It is the most geographically, linguistically, and ethnically diverse scoping of the crisis conducted up until late 2022. The research draw ... more
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Journalism in Onset of COVID-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh: Governance and Coping Strategies of Newspaper Journalists

Rakib Ahmed, Uzzwal Kumar Mondal, Mridha Md. Shiblee Noman
Society & Change, volume 25, issue 4 (2022), pp. 53-71
"This paper is about newspaper journalism practices under the COVID-19 pandemic in Bangladesh. Based on two separate theories - Communication Competence Theory, and Risk and Crisis Communication Management Theory -, this study intends to understand the challenges that newspaper journalists faced whi ... more
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Using Social Media to Change Gender Norms: An Experiment Within Facebook Messenger in India

Dante Donati, Victor Orozco-Olvera, Nandan Rao
Washington, DC: World Bank (2022), 53 pp.
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Mahatma Gandhi and Mass Media: Mediating Conflict and Social Change

Teresa Joseph
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xiv, 180 pp.
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Covid-19 in International Media: Global Pandemic Perspectives

John C. Pollock, Douglas A. Vakoch (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xxxi, 267 pp.
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Assessment of the Media Sector in Bangladesh: Final Report

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Solidarity and Survival: The Story of South Asia. Sri Lanka Country Report

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2022), 7 pp.
"This document was produced by the IFJ and focuses on the following issues that the media faces in Sri Lanka: The severe economic crisis in the country poses yet another challenge to a media barely recovering from the Covid-19 pandemic; existing issues in the media industry such as poor wages and wo ... more
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Media Governance: A Cosmopolitan Critique

Sarah Anne Ganter, Hanan Badr (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xv, 318 pp.
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Can Social Media Output Help Shift Perceptions About Informal Waste Pickers in Bengaluru, India?

BBC Media Action (2022), 4 pp.
"Bengaluru […] generates 5,757 metric tonnes of solid waste per day. Estimates suggest that approximately 20,000-30,000 people are engaged in waste picking in the city. BBC Media Action's 'A Pathway to Respect, Identity, Dignity and Empowerment' (PRIDE) project aims to shift negative perceptions a ... more
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Message Testing in India for COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake: What Appeal and What Messenger Are Most Persuasive?

Rupali J. Limaye, Daniel J. Erchick, Kristian Balgobin, Alexandra Michel, Gretchen Schulz
Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, volume 18, issue 6 (2022), 13 pp.
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China is Playing Turkey's Media Rules

Cagdas Ungör
Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2022), viii, 26 pp.
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Let the Net Work: Internet Shutdowns in India 2022

New Delhi: SFLC (2022), 48 pp.
"The observations made in this report make emphatically clear the failings of the current legal framework in defending human rights in the context of access to the internet. As seen in the report, the disruption of access to the internet is triggered at the most menial of instances, including for re ... more
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Pakistan Media Landscape Guide

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UNESCO's Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) Action in Nepal: 2018-2021 Quadrennial Report, Country Summaries

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 4 pp.
"From 2018 to 2021, the implementation of the MDP has been significant for the community media sector of Nepal. UNESCO has led continuous multi-stakeholder dialogue towards an improved framework for community media sustainability. This included the endorsement of the definition of community broadcas ... more
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Subalternities in India and Latin America: Dalit Autobiographies and the Testimonio

Sonya Surabhi Gupta (ed.)
London; New York: Routledge (2022), xii, 216 pp.
"This volume presents a comparative exploration of Dalit autobiographical writing from India and of Latin American testimonio as subaltern voices from two regions of the Global South. Offering frames for linking global subalternity today, the chapters address Siddalingaiah's Ooru Keri; Muli's Life H ... more
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Monitoring Report: Conflict Reporting in Azerbaijani- and Armenian-Language Regional Media and Other Media Outlets

Tina Gogoladze
Media Development Foundation (MDF) (2022), 66 pp.
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Insights on Peace and Conflict Reporting

Kristin Skare Orgeret (ed.)
Milton Park; New York: Routledge (2022), xi, 170 pp.
"The contributors, ranging from prominent scholars to the Head of Newsgathering at the BBC, discuss a diverse range of key case studies, including the role of Bellingcat in conflict journalism; war and peace journalism in Bangladesh; visual storytelling in conflict zones; and rampant cyber-misogyny ... more
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Examining Perceptions Towards War/Peace Journalism: A Survey of Journalists in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan

Shabir Hussain, Araz Ramazan Ahmad
International Communication Gazette, volume 84, issue 3 (2022), pp. 183-205
"Following seminal study on journalistic attitudes towards wars and peace journalism, in this study we investigated the perceptions of conflict reporters in the three most deadly countries in the world including Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. A total of 317 journalists participated in this study. T ... more