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Corruption & Combating Corruption
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Bribery & Corruption in Journalism
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Investigative Journalism
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Law & Regulation: Protection of Confidential Sources & Whistleblowers
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Media Assistance: Governance, Accountability, Combating Corruption
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Accountability & Transparency
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Governance & Accountability: Role of Media / Communication
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Corruption in Development Cooperation
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Government Advertising, State Advertising
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E-Governance, E-Democracy
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Business & Economics Journalism
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Access to Information Laws, Right to Information Regulation
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Media Freedom, Press Freedom
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Data Journalism, Computer-Assisted Investigative Reporting
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Commodities, Raw Materials, Extractive Industries, Mining
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Ethics in Media & Communication
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Financial Flow Analysis
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Media Assistance: Investigative Journalism
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Civic Engagement, Citizen & Community Participation
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Local Advertising & Local Advertising Markets
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Campaigning: Experiences
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Public Awareness Campaigns
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Protestantism (Mainline)
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Cybersecurity, Digital Safety, Privacy, Right to Privacy
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Indirect Censorship, Soft Censorship
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Killings of Journalists & Media Personnel
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Church Development Cooperation
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Governance & Accountability: Role of Digital Communication
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Journalism Ethics
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Safety of Journalists, Safety Risks of Media Workers
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Media Assistance
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Media Assistance: Self-Regulation, Accountability & Transparency of Media
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Public Funding & Support Policies for Media
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Contracts, Labour Agreements, Service Contracts
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Media Capture, Vested Political & Other Interests in the Media
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Civil Society
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Access to Internet & Digital Communications
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Editorial Independence: Influence of Advertisers
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Civic Engagement, Citizen Participation, Civil Society & Media
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Digital Activism, Cyber Advocacy
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Environmental & Land Conflicts
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Land Property, Land Grabbing, Land Reforms
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Campaigning: Message Design
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Election Campaigns
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Educational Comics & Comics for Development
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Evangelical Churches
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Editorial Independence: Influence of Media Owners
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Violence Against Journalists & Media Personnel
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Surveillance, Surveillance Technologies, Spyware
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Communication Strategies
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Social Marketing
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Participatory Videos & Community Filmmaking
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War Economies
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Media Assistance in Conflict Regions & Fragile Countries
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Peace Culture, Peace Education, Non-Violence
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Arts
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Development Organizations
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Behaviour Change
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Development Aid Reporting
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Media Viability & Financial Sustainability
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Transnational Corporations (General)
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Mobile Learning
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Extractive Industries & Mining Reporting
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Accountability & Transparency of the Media
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Sensationalist Journalism, Yellow Press
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Social Norms
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Russia: Foreign Information Operations, International Broadcasting, Public Diplomacy
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China: Foreign Policy, Foreign Investments, Development Assistance
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OSCE
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Constructive Journalism, Solution-Oriented Journalism
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Journalism Education & Training
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Journalists: Professional Identity & Values
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Television News
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Court Reporting & Media Representation of Judicial System
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Local Press
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Caruana Galizia, Daphne (1964-2017)
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Political Participation
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Democratization
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Watchdog Role of the Media
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Social Participation
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Journalisme d’investigation sur la corruption et les flux financiers illicites (FFI): Le manuel

Abidjan; Berlin: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ);Media in Cooperation and Transition (MiCT) (2022), 130 pp.
"The RTI Act is considered the mother of all anti-corruption tools in Ghana. It is expected that citizens will utilize the law to access public information thereby engendering transparency and accountability in governance. Again, that active information disclosure by government and public institutio ... more
"Citizen monitoring, social audits, mobile-based feedback systems, procurement monitoring: These are just a few examples of so-called citizen-centred accountability (CCA) mechanisms which governments and civil society organisations have developed to encourage citizens to feedback on the services the ... more

Are Whistleblowing Laws Working? A Global Study of Whistleblower Protection Litigation

International Bar Association;Government Accountability Project (2021), 81 pp.
"There are three imperatives for advancing whistleblower protection: (1) to draft and enact comprehensive antiretaliation laws that reflect global best practices by learning from and acting on mistakes or omissions in less sophisticated pioneer laws; (2) to turn paper rights into reality by ensuring ... more
"The courageous acts of whistleblowing that inspired the world over the past few years have changed our perception of surveillance and control in today's information society. But what are the wider effects of whistleblowing as an act of dissent on politics, society, and the arts? How does it contrib ... more
"This article shows how Information and Communication Technology (ICT), incorporating social media, can lead to accountability and transparency in a government's budget. Specifically, it examined how a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) used ICT to foster citizenship engagement in the Nigerian gove ... more
"Money Trail was a collaborative project between highly regarded journalism and training organizations: Finance Uncovered, Free Press Unlimited, Journalismfund.eu and Oxfam Novib. This final report showcases the ground-breaking stories, achievements, and activities of the project for the entire dura ... more
"The contradiction between the encouraging regulations and increasing awareness on one side and the disappointing reality on the other side leads us in this article to the question, how we can develop a more realistic and effective way to reduce corruption than by this double moral standard of nice ... more
"The paper argues that journalists' perceptions of their role in challenging corruption and developing democracy will give us some insight into Iraq's "crisis of democracy". The theory of democratic participation focuses on the centrality of media and communication institutions, founded on the princ ... more

Corruption and the Media

In: A Research Agenda for Studies of Corruption
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi; Paul M. Heywood (eds.)
Edward Elgar Publishing (2020), pp. 107-117
"The chapter offers an overview of the relationship between media and corruption. In a critical review of literature on the role of journalism in curbing corruption, different models and mechanisms are outlined. By presenting numerous studies, it is argued that press freedom helps to reduce corrupti ... more
"This rapid literature review concentrates on the role of communications activity (including communications campaigns and media relations in contributing to the reduction of corruption in Sub-Saharan Africa. The review also determines if there are any evidence-based examples on the impact of communi ... more
"In sub-Saharan Africa, the private media are often considered corrupt and thus incapable of performing critical watchdog functions. Using the Ghanaian case, the objective of this study is to examine how the private media contribute to exposing political corruption and demanding accountability. Base ... more
"Certain political moments create new possibilities for progress on anticorruption: we call these moments “windows of opportunity.” The actions needed to pass reforms and combat corruption during a window will be highly contingent on the political context and history of how the window opened. In ... more

Safety of Journalists and the Fighting of Corruption in the EU

Brussels: European Parliament, Committee on Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (2020), 112 pp.
"Journalism and journalists face a growing range of threats, including violence and harassment; the misuse of defamation and other laws against them, and restrictive measures on freedom of information and expression adopted in response to the Covid-19 crisis. States must ensure a safe and favourable ... more
"In 2019, the European Union adopted the “Directive (EU) 2019/1937 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2019 on the protection of persons who report breaches of Union law” (Whistleblower Protection Directive). EU Member States are required to transpose the provisions of th ... more
"The issue of soli (Soli is a Ghanaian journalistic parlance referring to the practice where journalists accept money or other forms of gifts as sitting allowance after covering an event.) or content-influencing gifts and its relations to the professional practice of journalist and other media worke ... more

Anti-Corruption Tabloid Journalism in Africa

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), x, 219 pp.
"Defining tabloid journalism practice as an infotainment genre, the book examines corruption exposure by tabloids in Arabic, Portuguese and Francophone speaking countries across Africa, making it a unique addition to the field. In doing so, it also builds an understanding of the evolution of anti-co ... more