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- Canaries in a coal-mine? What the killings of journalists tell us about future repression (2017)
- Live news Africa: a survival guide for journalists (2007)
- Equally safe: towards a feminist approach to the safety of journalists (2022)
- The kidnapping of journalists: reporting from high-risk conflict zones (2016)
- Journalism is a public good: world trends in freedom of expression and media development, global report 2021/2022 (2022)
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Equally safe: towards a feminist approach to the safety of journalists
London:
Article 19
(2022), 63 pp., bibliogr. p.56-60
"In 2021, ARTICLE 19 set out to make sometimes invisible practices more visible, building on our existing programmes on the safety of women journalists worldwide. We undertook original research globally and specifically in six countries, three in Asia (Bangladesh, Nepal, and Sri Lanka) and three in ...
The Universal Periodic Review (UPR) and its potential to foster freedom of expression, access to information and safety of journalists: guidelines for civil society organizations
UNESCO; Amnesty International
(2022), 17 pp.
CC BY-SA
"This guide aims to encourage civil society and community organizations, activists and individuals to engage with the United Nations' (UN) Universal Periodic Review (UPR) mechanism on freedom of expression, safety of journalists and access to information issues. The guide explains why it is importan...
Journalism is a public good: world trends in freedom of expression and media development, global report 2021/2022
Paris:
UNESCO
(2022), 160 pp., many figures, bibliogr. p.149-159
ISBN 978-92-3-100509-1
CC BY-SA
"Over the past five years, approximately 85 percent of the world’s population experienced a decline in press freedom in their country. Even in countries with long traditions of safeguarding free and independent journalism, financial and technological transformations have forced news outlets, espec...
The politics of impunity: a study of journalists’ experiential accounts of impunity in Bulgaria, Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Mexico and Pakistan
Journalism, volume 22, issue 2 (2021), pp. 303-319
"Definitions of impunity regarding crimes against journalists have thus far been too narrow. Therefore, we propose a new approach to understanding impunity as also being grounded in journalists’ lived reality and perceptions to better understand the complexity and breadth of impunity. It is based ...
Let free media thrive: stories of impact of the multi-donor programme on freedom of expression and safety of journalists
Paris:
UNESCO
(2020), 19 pp.
"2019 has seen major achievements resulting from needs-based, and specifically-tailored support through the Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP). Actions building on ongoing work and others opening new avenues, have initiated substantial changes in favour of...
Legal responses to online harassment and abuse of journalists: perspectives from Finland, France and Ireland
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media; International Press Institute (IPI)
(2019), 39 pp.
"This report specifically examines legal remedies for online attacks against journalists. It looks at three case studies, in Finland, France and Ireland, of female journalists who were viciously attacked online for their work and the ensuing attempts to hold the perpetrators accountable. From an ana...
Canaries in a coal-mine? What the killings of journalists tell us about future repression
Journal of peace research, volume 54, issue 2 (2017), pp. 157-174
" ... To test the argument whether the killing of journalists is a precursor to increasing repression, we introduce a new global dataset on killings of journalists between 2002 and 2013 that uses three different sources that track such events across the world. The new data show that mostly local jou...
Safe+Secure handbook
DOC Funders Network
(2017), 59 pp.
"Getting to the heart of stories by asking the really tough questions and going places where no one wants to go. That’s documentary at its best. This Safe+Secure Handbook has been designed to help filmmakers get there—and back—and get their stories into the public domain as safely as possible....
The kidnapping of journalists: reporting from high-risk conflict zones
London:
Tauris
(2016), vii, 100 pp.
ISBN 978-1-784535896
"This book explores the complex organisational issues surrounding the capture or kidnapping of journalists in areas of conflict and risk. It explores how journalists 'becoming news' is covered and the implications of that coverage, how news organisations prepare for and respond to such events, and h...
Live news Africa: a survival guide for journalists
Brussels; Dakar:
International News Safety Institute (INSI); International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) Africa Office
(2007), 87 pp.
"Live News: A Survival Guide for Journalists, is carefully tailored to help journalists to prepare themselves mentally, physically and psychologically before engaging on an assignment that can be very dangerous. The guiding tips provided in the text help to prepare the journalists mentally before, h...
