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World Press Freedom Index 2010
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Global Index, Latin America and the Carribean, Media, Civil SocietyThe World Press Freedom Index 2010 scores countries on levels of press freedom and the working conditions of journalists. It finds that Europe, which has traditionally been ranked high in the index, has slipped. Thirteen of the EU’s 27 members are in the top 20 but some of the other 14 are very low in the ranking. Italy is 49th, Romania is 52nd and Greece and Bulgaria are tied at...
Getting Away With Murder: CPJ’s 2010 Impunity Index
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Justice, Latin America and the Carribean, Media, Report, Civil SocietyThis is the third year CPJ has published its Impunity Index, which calculates the number of unsolved journalist murders as a percentage of a country’s population. In compiling the index, CPJ examined journalist murders in every nation in the world for the years 2000 through 2009. Cases are considered unsolved when no convictions have been obtained. Only those nations with five or...
Attacks on the Press 2009: A Worldwide Survey by the Committee to Protect Journalists
Africa, Arab States, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and CIS, Latin America and the Carribean, Media, Report, Civil SocietyThis report by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) provides statistics and analysis on media freedom around the world and to which extent journalists are killed, imprisoned or otherwise harassed while doing their job. It also provides country specific summaries on media freedom. The report also tries to tackle the shifting role of the media and traditional (print)...