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COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects on Journalism, Media & Communication
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Safety of Journalists, Safety Risks of Media Workers
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COVID-19 Communication
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Journalists Dealing with Risks & Threats, Resilience & Wellbeing of Media Workers
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Working Conditions of Journalists & Media Personnel
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Media Freedom, Press Freedom
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Harassment & Intimidation of Journalists
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Freelance Journalists & Media Workers
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Access to Public Information, Freedom of Information, Right to Information
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Authoritarian Regimes: Government Communication Strategies
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Chilling Effects (Discouragement of Legitimate Exercise of Legal Rights)
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Legal Threats to Media Freedom
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Media / Communication Control
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Censorship
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Press Freedom & Communication Rights Violations
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Self-Censorship
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Surveillance, Surveillance Technologies, Spyware
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Conspiracy Narratives, Conspiracy Theories
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Health Disinformation & Misinformation
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Media Viability & Financial Sustainability
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Health Journalism
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Journalists: Professional Identity & Values
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Safety of Journalists: Law & Public Policies
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Local Journalism
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Newsroom Management
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Television Journalism
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COVID-19 Pandemic: Economic, Political and Social Effects
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More than just collateral damage. Ramifications of the pandemic for freedom of the press
Publizistik, volume 67 (2022), pp. 31–50
"Confronted with a situation that was new to everyone, world leaders sought the best way to contain the pandemic caused by the coronavirus. The measures introduced, with lockdowns and curfews, affected fundamental rights such as freedom of movement and assembly, with implications for freedom of expr
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Face-to Face with COVID-19: Experiences of Ghanaian Frontline Journalists Infected with the Virus
In: Health Crises and Media Discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa
Carol Azungi Dralega; Angella Napakol (eds.)
Springer (2022), pp. 147-162
"Journalists around the world have been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Consequently, media houses have had to make drastic adjustments to the impact of challenges wrought by the pandemic on their operations. Ghanaian media houses also faced similar challenges and disruptions. News reporters and
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Endangered Voices: Nigerian Journalists’ Safety amid the COVID-19 Pandemic
In: Health Crises and Media Discourses in Sub-Saharan Africa
Carol Azungi Dralega; Angella Napakol (eds.)
Springer (2022), pp. 109-126
"This chapter examines the difficult conditions Nigerian journalists faced while reporting during the COVID-19 pandemic, focusing on the threats and dangers faced by Nigerian broadcast journalists and its implication for journalism practice amid a pandemic. Using a qualitative approach, we conducted
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Knowledge and Practice of Safety Protocols among Journalists Serving as Frontline Workers in the COVID-19 Fight in Ebonyi State, Nigeria
International Journal of Ebola, AIDS, HIV and Infectious Diseases and Immunity, volume 7, issue 1 (2022), pp. 20-37
"This study investigated the knowledge and practice of safety protocols among journalists serving as frontline workers in the fight against COVID-19 in Ebonyi State, Nigeria. Descriptive survey research design was adopted. Structured questionnaire served as instrument for data collection. The popula
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A battle of two pandemics: Coronavirus and digital authoritarianism in the Arab World
In: Cyber War & Cyber Peace: Digital Conflict in the Middle East
Eliza Campbell; Michael Sexton (eds.)
London; New York: Tauris (2022), pp. 161-178
"This chapter explores the current wave of coronavirus-related digital crackdowns in the Arab region, which are unfolding in multiple forms, and analyzes its causes, contexts, and consequences. It explores why and how the stifling of media freedom and freedom of speech online in the Arab region has
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‘Lockdown’ on Digital Journalism? Mapping Threats to Press Freedom During the COVID-19 Pandemic Crisis
Digital Journalism, volume 9, issue 9 (2021), pp. 1344-1366
"Across the globe, governments have issued emergency and drastic measures aimed at tracking the spread of COVID-19 and safeguarding public health. Notwithstanding the necessity and importance of some of these measures, this work argues that numerous governments around the world used the pandemic cri
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Live from my Living Room: Perceived Organizational Support Among TV News Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Electronic News, volume 15, issue 3–4 (2021), pp. 75–94
"As members of the media, TV news workers were considered essential employees during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many employees went into the field to cover stories related to the pandemic, which included anti-mask and lock-down protests. This mixed-methods study explored the extent to which TV news work
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Health and Safety Risks to Journalists During Pandemics
In: Handbook of Research on Discrimination, Gender Disparity, and Safety Risks in Journalism
Sadia Jamil; Baris Çoban; Bora Ataman; Gifty Appiah-Adjei (eds.)
Hershey, PA: IGI Global (2021), pp. 90-103
"Journalists play a critical role in the dissemination of health information to the public. This chapter explores the challenges created by COVID-19 for journalists in Pakistan. It also examines how the pandemic has shed light on the disparities and safety risks in the Pakistani journalism and expos
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Media Freedom in South Africa Today: Unravelling Multifarious Threats toward a Research and Advocacy Response
Communicatio: South African Journal for Communication Theory and Research, volume 46, issue 3 (2020), pp. 1-19
"This article assesses the multiple factors which are barriers to media freedom in South Africa. These include crises of financial sustainability of the media sector which have recently been compounded by the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic; widespread job losses in journalism; and harassment and phy
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Freedom of Expression in Times of Covid-19: Chilling Effect in Hungary and Serbia
Journal of Liberty and International Affairs, volume 6, issue 2 (2020), pp. 14-29
"New technologies have opened several risks to safety of journalists. More importantly, in the state of emergency caused by the Covid-19 outbreak, journalists and media actors have shifted their activities online more than ever, which also made them more prone to digital threats and attacks. In some
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Covid 19 and the Safety of Media Personnel in Nigeria
Revista de Studii Media, volume 9 (2020), pp. 14-23
"This paper investigated media personnel employers’compliance with safety and protection of professionals in charge of dissemination of information whenever their assignments take them to places where their lives could be at risk. The occupational safety and health convention spells out the requir
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