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The Role of Ghanaian News Media Organisations in Countering Threats to Media Freedom and Journalists' Safety

, 2020
Journalist safety is vital to media freedom as it shows stakeholders' duties to protect the media from crime and to guard media freedom. The media have the power to combat problems via coverage, yet evidence submits that journalist insecurity persists in
Gifty Appiah-Adjei
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The Squeeze On African Media Freedom

Journal of Democracy, 2020
:Nearly thirty years after governments loosened control over broadcasters and publishers, Africa's media face increasing threats. New laws are resulting in the imprisonment of journalists and closure of media houses, while internet shutdowns and "social ...
Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz
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Types and Sources of Threats to Media Freedom in Uganda

, 2020
This chapter contributes to journalism research from the Uganda's context by investigating the types and sources of threats to journalists' safety and media freedom in the country.
Florence Namasinga Selnes, Gerald Walulya   +1 more
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Threats to Media Freedom and the Safety of Journalists in Nigeria

, 2020
This chapter interrogates long-established and wide-sprung threats to media freedom and journalists' safety in Nigeria. The study used semi-structured interviews to explore field and newsroom experiences.
U. Pate, Sharafa Dauda
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Navigating media freedom in the EU

Papers from the International Scientific Conference of the European Studies Department, Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence, Faculty of Philosophy at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
[Keynote speech]
Maja Sever
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Measuring Global Media Freedom

Mass Communication and Society, 2020
Over the years, there have been many attempts to quantify international media freedom and just as many criticisms of its measurement. Dr.
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Freedom of Media

2021
Abstract This chapter explains that in a number of jurisdictions, freedom of media is treated as a subset of freedom of speech. It is speech amplified by technical means such as print or electromagnetic waves. Like freedom of speech, it is conceived as an individual right of the speaker.
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Media Freedom in the Shadow of a Coup

Journal of the European Economic Association, 2018
Popular protests and palace coups are the two domestic threats to dictators. We show that free media, which informs citizens about their rulers, is a double-edged sword that alleviates one threat, but exacerbates the other.
Raphael Boleslavsky, Mehdi Shadmehr, K. Sonin   +2 more
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Captured Media: Limitations and Structural Hindrances to Media Freedom in Serbia

Review of Central and Eastern European Law, 2018
This article investigates persistent limitations to media freedom in Serbia, principally understood as the legal status of press freedom and how this is put into practice (or not).
Marko Kmezić
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Media Freedom of Expression

Communication Booknotes, 1972
James F. Fixx (general ed.) The Great Contemporary Issues: The Mass Media and Politics (New York: New York Times/Arno Press, 1972---$25.00) The Georgetown Law Journal (60:4, March 1972, pp. 867-1099, $4.00, paper) Press Freedoms Under Pressure: Report of the Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on the Government and the Press (New York: Twentieth Century ...
James F. Fixx, Marian Lalson
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