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Freedom of Expression on the Internet
Media, Report, Inter-Governmental OrganizationThe report assesses the compliance of applicable national Internet legislation andpractices with existing OSCE media freedom commitments, Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights (where applicable) as well as the case law of the...
IAPA General Assembly Country Reports
Latin America and the Carribean, Media, Report, Civil SocietyWith more than 500 representatives from the media in the Americas participating, between November 5th and 9th 2010 the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) reviewed the performance of press freedom country-by-country during its annual meeting held in Merida, Mexico. Official documents from this meeting - 25 reports, 22 resolutions and conclusions - are available in English...
Data-driven journalism: What is there to learn?
Media, Report, Civil SocietyThis collection of resources presents an overview of data-driven journalism: what it is today and what it might become in the future. The idea is to provide both experienced journalists and newcomers with a well- structured primer, while breaking down some of the barriers holding back coders and non-coders alike from starting to experiment. We need better solutions, good...
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...
An Assessment of the Role of Community Radio in Peacebuilding and Development: Case Studies in Liberia and Sierra Leone
Africa, Civil Society, Media, Report, Civil SocietyThis five-page report details the results of an evaluation of four community radio stations in rural Sierra Leone and Liberia. The evaluation focused on areas still struggling to achieve meaningful development in a post-conflict setting and was designed to assess the relationships between drivers of development and community radio stations. The study found that community radios are...
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)...
Freedom on the Net: a global assessment of Internet and digital media
Civil Society, Media, Report, Civil SocietyThe study evaluates the level of internet and mobile phone freedom experienced by average users and activists in a sample of 15 countries across 6 regions. It is based on a newly developed set of 19 indicators. The index addresses a range of factors that might affect freedom, including the state of telecommunications infrastructure, government restrictions on access to technology,...
The role of media in fragile situations: a research dialogue across disciplines
Media, Report, Academic/Think Tank, Civil SocietyThere has been growing evidence in recent years about the significant role of media in determining governance and development outcomes in states often described as fragile, or thought to be experiencing fragility. This report presents the deliberations at a symposium on this theme. The report focuses on the state of development research relevant to the role of media in ‘fragile states...
Making the news: why the African Peer Review Mechanism didn’t
Africa, Democracy, Media, Report, Civil SocietyThe African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) has not generated a national conversation in South Africa. This paper investigates the reasons for this failure of the APRM. Among the reasons, the author argues, is the failure of the citizens to seize the opportunity as also the media’s neglect of the APRM. The peer review process was intended to involve millions of...
Public Broadcast Services in Africa Series - South Africa
Africa, Civil Society, Media, Political Parties, Report, Civil SocietyAccording to the report, access to South Africa’s wide range of media is unevenly divided. Remote rural areas still do not have access to media. An average newspaper is more expensive than a loaf of bread; more than two thirds of households do not have a functioning television set, whilst 85 percent of households do not have a computer, and 93 percent do not have access...