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Pressing for Freedom: 20 Years of World Press Freedom Day

Author : William Horsley
Publisher : UNESCO
ISBN 13 : 9230011622
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Pressing for Freedom: 20 Years of World Press Freedom Day written by William Horsley and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origins of World Press Freedom Day arise from a declaration signed by a group of African journalists who gathered at a UNESCO seminar on "Promoting an Independent and Pluralistic African Media" that was held in Windhoek, Namibia from 29 April to 3 May 1991. Subsequently, painstaking lobbying led to the proclamation of 3 May as an international day on press freedom by the United Nations General Assembly in 1993. This publication aims to commemorate the 20th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day by illuminating the trajectory of this important international event from its origins, following the historic Windhoek Declaration, to the present day. Issues of media freedom, safety of journalists, impunity, gender in the media, pluralism, independence and access to information, as well as the role of the Internet and other 21st century media developments are also covered.

Pressing for freedom

Author : Horsley, William
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9231001310
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Pressing for freedom written by Horsley, William and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-25 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The United Nations and Freedom of Expression and Information

Author : Tarlach McGonagle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316033473
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The United Nations and Freedom of Expression and Information written by Tarlach McGonagle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are a multitude of UN legal instruments which pertain to the rights of freedom of expression and information, and this book is the first to comprehensively map them and their function. It details the chequered history of both of these rights within the UN system and evaluates the suitability of the system for overcoming contemporary challenges and threats to the rights. Leading scholars address key issues, such as how the rights to freedom of expression and information can come into conflict with other human rights and with public policy goals, such as counter-terrorism. The book's institutional focus comprises five international treaties, UNESCO and the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression. Relevant for academics, lawyers, policy-makers and civil society actors, it also examines how new communication technologies have prompted fresh thinking about the substance and scope of the rights to freedom of expression and information.

Press Freedom as an International Human Right

Author : Wiebke Lamer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319765086
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book Press Freedom as an International Human Right written by Wiebke Lamer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines why press freedom has not become part of the established international human rights debate, despite its centrality to democratic theory. It argues that an unrestricted press is not just an important economic actor, but also an influential power in the political process, a status that interferes with government interests of sustaining their own power and influence. Despite the popularity of ideational explanations in the field of human rights studies, in the case of promoting press freedom, considerations of power and strategic interests rather than ideas dominate state behavior. The author makes the case that the current place of press freedom in the human rights debate needs to be rethought not only in developing countries, but in liberal democracies as well.

Rethinking Media Studies

Author : Ananta Kumar Giri
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040021557
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Media Studies written by Ananta Kumar Giri and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-05-13 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconsiders media studies from different philosophical and theoretical perspectives from around the world. It brings together diverse views and visions from thinkers such as Sr Aubrobindo, Jurgen Habermas, Paul Ricoeur, Pope Francis, and Satyajit Ray, among others. The authors focus on the issues of ethics, aesthetics, meditation, and communication in relation to media studies and explore the links between media and mindfulness. The volume includes case studies from India, United States, Switzerland, and Denmark and presents empirical works on new horizons of critical media studies in different fields such as American news media and creative media lab. A unique contribution, this book will be indispensable for students and researchers of journalism, communication studies, social media, behavioural sciences, sociology, philosophy, cultural studies, and development studies.

Freedom of the Press 2003

Author : Freedom House (U.S.)
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742528741
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book Freedom of the Press 2003 written by Freedom House (U.S.) and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The annual Freedom of the Press, which tracks trends in media freedom worldwide, appears for the first time as an expanded book. Covering 192 countries, the survey provides numerical ratings of the level of press freedom in each country. The Freedom House survey team also assesses the legal environment for the media, political pressures that influence reporting, and economic factors that affect access to information. Essays include a 25-year retrospective of press freedom and a timely analysis of the upcoming World Summits on the Information Society (2003 and 2005). Academics in several disciplines, governments, the news media, and the World Bank employ Freedom of the Press as a standard reference.

World trends in freedom of expression and media development

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9231002422
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book World trends in freedom of expression and media development written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-05 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the face of such challenges, this new volume in the World Trends in Freedom of Expression and Media Development series offers a critical analysis of new trends in media freedom, pluralism, independence and the safety of journalists.

Press Freedom and Communication in Africa

Author : Festus Eribo
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Press Freedom and Communication in Africa written by Festus Eribo and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The significance of press freedom in contemporary society and the attitudes of governments to freedom of expression and democratic practices have taken on a new garment since the end of the cold war. In Africa, a strong awareness of the advantages of a free press and the inalienable rights of the people, to unfettered communication has sparked an unstoppable demand for freedom of the press across the continent. The increase in the number of independent newspapers, radio and television stations on the one hand and the frequency of government censorship of press and arrests of journalists on the other hand are evidence of a continent at a crossroads. In this volume, twenty communications scholars examine, from a variety of perspectives, the past and present developments in Africa's quest for press freedom. The essays focus on the media in Anglophone, Arabic speaking, Francophone, and Lusophone Africa, capturing the inherent problems and benefits-where they exist- of colonial legacy and the fragility of press freedom in the fledgling post-colonial administrations bedeviled by underdevelopment and political instability. As the essays in this volume reveal, Africa's unquenchable thirst for freedom of expression continues to play a central part in the socio-political and economic spheres from Cape Town to Cairo and from Accra to Dar es Salaam. The authors' analytical approach to the subject matter provides to a fresh understanding of the historicity, complexities, difficulties of the mass media on a continent in search of "a free market place of ideas".

Journalism is a Public Good

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
ISBN 13 : 923100509X
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Journalism is a Public Good written by UNESCO and published by UNESCO Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-19 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Global Enabling Trade Report 2008

Author :
Publisher : World Economic Forum
ISBN 13 : 9295044061
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book The Global Enabling Trade Report 2008 written by and published by World Economic Forum. This book was released on 2008 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Freeing the Presses

Author : Timothy E. Cook
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807130773
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Freeing the Presses written by Timothy E. Cook and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " ... Addresses the timely question of how best to pursue a media system that fulfills the demands of a democratic society."--Cover.

Congressional Record

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1412 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 1412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Free Speech and Unfree News

Author : Sam Lebovic
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674969596
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book Free Speech and Unfree News written by Sam Lebovic and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does America have a free press? Many who say yes appeal to First Amendment protections against censorship. Sam Lebovic shows that free speech, on its own, is not sufficient to produce a free press and helps us understand the crises that beset the press amid media consolidation, a secretive national security state, and the daily newspaper’s decline.

Freedom of the Press 2006

Author : Freedom House (U.S.)
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742554368
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Freedom of the Press 2006 written by Freedom House (U.S.) and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom House's annual press freedom survey has tracked trends in media freedom worldwide since 1980. Covering 194 countries and territories, Freedom of the Press 2006 provides comparative rankings and examines the legal environment for the media, political pressures that influence reporting, and economic factors that affect access to information. The survey is the most authoritative assessment of media freedom around the world. Its findings are widely utilized by policymakers, scholars, press freedom advocates, journalists, and international institutions.

Freeing the Presses

Author : Timothy E. Cook
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807131687
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Freeing the Presses written by Timothy E. Cook and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Americans consider a free press essential to democratic society -- either as an independent watchdog against governmental abuse of power or as a wide-open marketplace of ideas. But few understand that far-reaching public policies have shaped the news citizens receive. In an age when mass communication ranges from independent cable channels to the Internet, it is essential to assess these policies and their effects if we want the media to continue fulfilling their role. Freeing the Presses offers a pathbreaking inquiry into the theory and practice of freedom of the press at a critical time in the growing overlap between modern media and political discussion. Six political communication scholars draw upon history, sociology, political science, legal philosophy, and journalism to investigate whether the freedoms and privileges given to the news media and to reporters actually produce the results we expect. Their discussion covers past, present, and future media performance and engages a wide range of provocative questions.

The New Censorship

Author : Joel Simon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231538332
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The New Censorship written by Joel Simon and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how the media is under fire and how to safeguard journalists and the information they seek to share with the public. Journalists are being imprisoned and killed in record numbers. Online surveillance is annihilating privacy, and the Internet can be brought under government control at any time. Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, warns that we can no longer assume that our global information ecosystem is stable, protected, and robust. Journalists are increasingly vulnerable to attack by authoritarian governments, militants, criminals, and terrorists, who all seek to use technology, political pressure, and violence to set the global information agenda. Reporting from Pakistan, Russia, Turkey, Egypt, and Mexico, among other hotspots, Simon finds journalists under threat from all sides. The result is a growing crisis in information—a shortage of the news we need to make sense of our globalized world and fight human rights abuses, manage conflict, and promote accountability. Drawing on his experience defending journalists on the front lines, he calls on “global citizens,” U.S. policy makers, international law advocates, and human rights groups to create a global freedom-of-expression agenda tied to trade, climate, and other major negotiations. He proposes ten key priorities, including combating the murder of journalists, ending censorship, and developing a global free-expression charter to challenge the criminal and corrupt forces that seek to manipulate the world's news. “Wise and insightful. [Simon] offers hope to all who care about maintaining the free flow of information in a world full of would-be censors.”—Ann Cooper, Columbia Journalism School

Freedom in the World 2020

Author : Freedom House
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1538151812
Total Pages : 1483 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Freedom in the World 2020 written by Freedom House and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2021-01-22 with total page 1483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Freedom in the World, the Freedom House flagship survey whose findings have been published annually since 1972, is the standard-setting comparative assessment of global political rights and civil liberties. The survey ratings and narrative reports on 195 countries and fifteen territories are used by policymakers, the media, international corporations, civic activists, and human rights defenders to monitor trends in democracy and track improvements and setbacks in freedom worldwide. The Freedom in the World political rights and civil liberties ratings are determined through a multi-layered process of research and evaluation by a team of regional analysts and eminent scholars. The analysts used a broad range of sources of information, including foreign and domestic news reports, academic studies, nongovernmental organizations, think tanks, individual professional contacts, and visits to the region, in conducting their research. The methodology of the survey is derived in large measure from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and these standards are applied to all countries and territories, irrespective of geographical location, ethnic or religious composition, or level of economic development.