Attacks on the Press: Gender and Media Freedom Worldwide - Couverture souple

Committee To Protect Journalists

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 111923090X ISBN 13 : 9781119230908

Editeur : John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2016

A propos du livre

Quatrième de couverture :

THE WORLD′S MOST COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO INTERNATIONAL PRESS FREEDOM

Recent highly publicized murders of journalists have heightened awareness of the grave dangers that reporters and photographers face around the world. Less widely known are the myriad other risks to journalists, including imprisonment, cyberattacks, harassment, frivolous lawsuits, and censorship. These threats exist to varying degrees in war zones, politically volatile regions, and even stable countries, and they all hold the potential to limit public access to news.

The risks are increasing due to widespread unrest and in response to the broad dissemination of critical information through social media and the Internet.

For almost three decades, the Committee to Protect Journalists has published Attacks on the Press as part of its mission to protect and advocate for journalists around the world. The book chronicles contemporary global threats through a mix of original reporting, personal accounts, and rigorously vetted data. The results are illuminating and cautionary, and provide timely information and guidance for media professionals working on the front lines.

This volume includes:

• An expert assessment of the dangers to freelance journalists in conflict zones as well as one young reporter′s firsthand account of her experience freelancing in Syria
• A critical look at the collapse of the independent media in Russia and another on the media vacuum in contested areas of Ukraine
• Reports on physical risks to journalists in Mexico, Pakistan, and Paraguay and on the jailing of bloggers in Ethiopia
• Evaluations of new forms of censorship in places like Egypt, Hong Kong, and Turkey, and of changing laws governing digital information around the world
• A review of available cybersecurity measures and the price journalists pay to keep up with spies
• News on the rise of right–wing harassment of journalists in Europe and on the backlash against the U.K. media in the wake of that country′s phone–hacking scandal
• A contemplation of the long–range impacts of the publicized executions of journalists by militant groups such as Islamic State
• And an analysis of the 10 most censored countries in the world

Among the journalists under attack are seasoned reporters and photographers working for established media organizations as well as freelancers and bloggers most of them local who typically have limited support and may face open hostility from governments, militants, corrupt police, or criminal cartels. In some cases, the risks have reduced coverage of events of international significance, which limits public understanding and in some cases leads to escalating violence.

Attacks on the Press is published by the Committee to Protect Journalists, an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The world′s most comprehensive guide to international press freedom

From Aleppo to Zacatecas, Beijing to Brasilia, the past decade has seen a sharp rise in the number of journalist imprisonments, assassinations, and disappearances worldwide. Caught between warlords and religious extremists, corrupt police and drug cartels, and hemmed in by increasingly oppressive censorship laws, journalists have never been at such peril, nor asked to pay such a high price for the ethical practice of their profession.

Begun as a simple typewritten list in 1986, Attacks on the Press has grown to become the definitive annual assessment of press freedoms globally. Compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists, it provides up–to–the–minute analyses of media conditions, press freedom violations, and emerging threats to journalists in every corner of the world.

In this 2013 edition, you will find front–line reports and analytical essays by CPJ experts covering an array of topics of critical importance to journalists, including:

• Journalist casualties at the front lines of conflicts in Syria, Nigeria, Somalia, Afghanistan, and other global hot spots
• The curtailment of Internet freedoms across Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on the draconian measures now in place in Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand
• The status of investigations into the disappearances of 35 journalists worldwide, and why more than half of those disappeared went missing in Mexico and Russia
• The rise in journalist imprisonments globally, the spate of new anti–terrorism laws that made it possible, and the example set by the U.S. government in the wake of 9/11
• The state of journalistic freedoms in Iran since the Green Movement and the practice of summary imprisonment of Iranian journalists
• How the rise of mobile Internet technology and social media has engendered new dangers for journalists from both insurgent groups and the governments they are fighting

In addition to being an invaluable source of timely information and guidance for media professionals, Attacks on the Press gives voice to journalists globally, providing them with a platform for direct advocacy with governments and a seat in discussions at the UN, OAS, EU, AU, and other official bodies.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Date d'édition: 2016
• ISBN 10: 111923090X
• ISBN 13: 9781119230908
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176