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, especially those serving local communities, to close. With readership and advertising markets moving online, advertising revenue for newspapers plummeted by nearly half in the ten-year period ending in 2019. The subsequent COVID-19 pandemic and its global economic impact have exacerbated this trend, now threatening to create an “extinction level” event for independent journalism outlets. The 2021/2022 global edition of the flagship series of reports on World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development examines these questions with a special focus on “journalism as a public good”." (Abstract)
Contents
Introduction, 13
Special Focus: Journalism as a Public Good / Matthew Fraser et al., 17
Press Freedom in Times of Crisis and Transformation / Nicholas Benequista et al., 44
Threats that Silence: Trends in the Safety of Journalists / Theresa Chorbacher et al., 82
Better Data for Better Understanding of Freedom of Expression and Media Development / Emmanuel Letouzé et al., 109
Conclusion, 126
Appendix A: Declaration of Windhoek on Promoting an Independent and Pluralistic African Press, 130
Appendix B: Windhoek+30 Declaration, 133
Appendix C: Methodology, 137
Appendix D: UNESCO Member States by Regional Grouping, 139
Appendix E: Timeline of Key Resolutions and Decisions regarding Safety of Journalists since 2016, 142
Special Focus: Journalism as a Public Good / Matthew Fraser et al., 17
Press Freedom in Times of Crisis and Transformation / Nicholas Benequista et al., 44
Threats that Silence: Trends in the Safety of Journalists / Theresa Chorbacher et al., 82
Better Data for Better Understanding of Freedom of Expression and Media Development / Emmanuel Letouzé et al., 109
Conclusion, 126
Appendix A: Declaration of Windhoek on Promoting an Independent and Pluralistic African Press, 130
Appendix B: Windhoek+30 Declaration, 133
Appendix C: Methodology, 137
Appendix D: UNESCO Member States by Regional Grouping, 139
Appendix E: Timeline of Key Resolutions and Decisions regarding Safety of Journalists since 2016, 142
