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Journalism under Duress: Worlds of Journalism Study Report (Wave 3: 2021–2025)
Munich: Ludwig-Maximilian Universität (LMU), WJS Center (2025), 371 pp.
"This report presents findings from the third wave of the Worlds of Journalism Study (WJS3), conducted between 2021 and 2025. In this iteration, we focused on journalists’ perceptions of risk and uncertainty in their profession and sought to identify key factors that shape how journalists navigate
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Handbook of Digital Journalism: Perspectives from South Asia
Singapore: Springer (2024), lxv, 589 pp.
"Digital Journalism: Perspectives from South Asia is a descriptive, exploratory book on digital journalism practices and policies followed in India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, and Bhutan. It brings in-depth perspectives on content, communication, and community between communication theory and the
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Community Radio in Bhutan
Journal of Radio & Audio Media, volume 30, issue 1 (2023), pp. 227-251
"We look at community media in Bhutan from three important perspectives – the concept of community media in general, a modified self-evaluation tool developed by UNESCO Chair on Community Media, Vinod Pavarala, and the Gross National Happiness index where we show in what way community media may co
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Climate Change and Community Resilience: Insights from South Asia
Singapore: Springer;South Asian Network for Development and Environmental Economics (SANDEE);International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) (2022), xxvii, 460 pp.
"Using a narrative style, this book draws on stories and examples from seven South Asian countries—Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka—to highlight how communities in South Asia are building resilience to climate change. A total of 58 authors have contributed to t
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Giga: Empowering communities in Asia and the Pacific through school connectivity
Geneva: ITU (2021), ix, 92 pp.
"Giga, a joint collaboration between ITU and UNICEF, is an initiative to connect every young person in the world to information, opportunity and choice. Devised before the onslaught on COVID-19, the project addresses the underlying inequities in access to the Internet. However, it is also a platform
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Regional good practices: Accelerating innovation, entrepreneurship and digital transformation in the Asia-Pacific region
Geneva: ITU (2021), viii, 80 pp.
"This report provides an overview of the innovation capacity of the Asia-Pacific region through ICT-centric innovation activity and offers an insight to how good practice can strengthen Member State capacity to integrate ICT innovation into development agendas.
Although the Asia-Pacific region has a
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Truth Vs Misinformation: The Collective Push Back. South Asia Press Freedom Report 2018-19
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2019), 83 pp.
"In 2018, South Asia was declared by the IFJ as the most deadly region in the world for media workers, which most brutally demonstrates the reality faced by far too many in the industry. Nowhere was this more acutely felt than Afghanistan with eight journalists and four other media workers killed, a
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Media Policy for Small Emerging Democracies: Distinctiveness, Vulnerabilities, and Development
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Nanyang Technological University, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Doctoral Thesis (2018), xiv, 239 pp.
"Media in small emerging democracies face multiple obstacles caused by “smallness” and the state of “late democratization.” “Smallness” raises the question of how to develop financial independence in these countries. “Late democratization” gives rise to the challenge of maintaining p
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Mindful Communication for Sustainable Development: Perspectives from Asia
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New Delhi et al.: Sage (2018), xiv, 353 pp.
"The model of journalism we practice in Asia is an adversarial one driven by conflict reporting, a model we have borrowed from the West. This book is an outcome of a project implemented by the Faculty of Communication Arts of Chulalongkorn University and funded by the International Program for the D
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IGF Academy Transfer Guide: Sharing Learning and Experience from Year One
Berlin: iRights;IGF Academy (2017), 59 pp.
"This publication is what we call our Transfer Guide. It serves three different purposes. First, it documents the work done by the IGF Academy team and the eight fellows in 2016. Together, we mapped those stakeholders involved (or who should be involved) in Internet governance in the eight countries
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New Fronts, Brave Voices: Press Freedom in South Asia 2016-17
New Delhi: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Asia-Pacific;South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) (2017), 113 pp.
"South Asia is a region of enormous contrasts, but from the vastness of India to tiny and placid Bhutan, journalism faces several problems in common. The safety situation has improved in some of the countries that were racked by internal strife, but journalists remain at acute risk in India and Paki
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Journalists in Bhutan
Worlds of Journalism Study (2016), 6 pp.
"Bhutanese journalists view their professional roles in very similar ways to Western journalists. The reason for this can partly be found in Bhutan’s effort to orientate its media on the media of Western democracies and therefore emphasize the “detached watchdog” role. “Report things as they
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The Road to Resilience: Press Freedom in South Asia 2015-16
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ);South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) (2016), 113 pp.
"As we stand now, Pakistan’s media continues its stratospheric expansion, but in the midst of curbs and controls and ongoing safety issues. Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka are treading a precarious path to finding credible and independent spaces for the media against economic challenge and political c
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The Dragon's Voice: How Modern Media Found Bhutan
St Lucia, Queensland: University of Queensland Press, updated ed. (2015), 227 pp.
"In The Dragon's Voice, Australian journalist Bunty Avieson provides a glimpse of life beyond the country's exotic exterior. As a consultant to local newspaper Bhutan Observer, she admires the paper's strong social conscience, but finds her expectations challenged in a country where spirituality and
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The Freedom Frontier: Press Freedom in South Asia 2014-15
New Delhi: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Asia-Pacific (2015), 113 pp.
"The year under review in this report (May 2014 to April 2015) shows that journalists and media workers remain victims and, too often, targets in the deadly power struggles on which that they report. Within this time period, 14 journalists lost their lives, mostly in targeted attacks. Pakistan was t
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South Asian Newspaper Directory 2015-2017
Chennai: WAN-IFRA South Asia (2015), 136 pp.
"A look at the past three editions of the South Asian Newspaper Directory show significant trends. Newspaper publishers continue to increase the number of editions and printing centres; many publishers have opted for double-width presses, a new trend particularly among the local language / regional
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Digital, Social & Mobile in APAC in 2015: We Are Social and IAB Singapore's Compendium of Asia-Pacific Digital Statistics
Singapore: We Are Social;IAB Singapore (2015), 319 slides
The Stories Women Journalists Tell: Women in Media in South Asia
International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Asia-Pacific;South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) (2014), 24 pp.
"The promotion of gender equality among journalists is a key objective of the SAMSN gender project going forward in 2014. The roundtables and the gender networking conference discussed strategies and campaigns that could address the issues faced by women in South Asia. The conference also put forwar
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The Campaign for Justice: Press Freedom in South Asia 2013-14
Brussels: International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2014), 81 pp.
Clouds of Unknowing: Buddhism and Bhutanese Cinema
In: Storytelling in World Cinemas. Vol. 2: Contexts
Lina Khatib (ed.)
London; New York: Wallflower Press (2013), pp. 157-171
"In this chapter, we have looked at how Buddhism and orality have been translated into film in Bhutan. We have argued, that cinema operates as a secondary oral medium, through the various rituals of production, distribution and consumption and, most significantly, at the level of story construction.
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