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The Quest for Press Freedom

Author : Meseret Chekol Reta
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 0761860029
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (618 download)

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Download or read book The Quest for Press Freedom written by Meseret Chekol Reta and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Quest for Press Freedom is a book about press development and freedom in Ethiopia, with a focus on the state media. It examines the building of a modern media institution over the last one hundred years of its existence, and the restrictions against its freedoms. The significance of this work lies in its originality and that it addresses these two issues across three distinct epochs: the monarchy era, the Marxist military regime, and the current ethnic federalist regime. The book examines the political and social situations in each of these periods, and analyzes the effects they had on the media. The book also provides examples of how journalists working for the government-run media have a strong desire to exercise their constitutional right to press freedom. In the final chapter, Reta offers recommendations for a more viable media system in Ethiopia.

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".

Quest for Freedom

Author : Kenton Clymer
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231501507
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Quest for Freedom written by Kenton Clymer and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quest for Freedom

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.

War & Press Freedom

Author : Jeffery Alan Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book War & Press Freedom written by Jeffery Alan Smith and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What authority does or should the government have to control press coverage and commentary in wartime? Smith shows convincingly that no such extraordinary power exists under the Constitution, and that officials have had to rely on claiming the existence of an autocratic "higher law" of survival. He carefully surveys the development of statutory restrictions and military regulations for the news media from the ratification of the Bill of Rights in 1791 through theGulf War of 1991.

The Unfulfilled Promise of Press Freedom in Canada

Author : Lisa Taylor
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487520247
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)

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Download or read book The Unfulfilled Promise of Press Freedom in Canada written by Lisa Taylor and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canadian news reports are riddled with accounts of Access to Information requests denied and government reports released with large swaths of content redacted. The Unfulfilled Promise of Press Freedom in Canada offers a vast array of viewpoints that critically analyze the application and interpretation of press freedom under the Charter of Rights. This collection, assiduously put together by editors Lisa Taylor and Cara-Marie O'Hagan, showcases the insights of leading authorities in law, journalism, and academia as well as broadcasters and public servants. The contributors explore the ways in which press freedom has been constrained by outside forces, like governmental interference, threats of libel suits, and financial constraints. These intersectional and multifaceted lines of inquiry provide the reader with a 360-degree assessment of press freedom in Canada while discouraging complacency among Canadian citizens. After all, an informed citizenry is a free citizenry.

Building Peace Rebuilding Patriarchy

Author : Johnston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197634206
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)

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Download or read book Building Peace Rebuilding Patriarchy written by Johnston and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "After discussions of the media environments in the three countries, an overview and critique of current theories of media systems highlight how existing frameworks rest on the misguided presumption that nations and their press freedom landscapes exist within a state of linear democratization-that societies have progressed and will continue to progress from non-democracy to democracy-when, in actuality, specific events can unravel structures and derail democracy-building processes. Many existing frameworks are grounded in Western ways of thinking and tend to take a universalistic approach to the press that doesn't account for transitions and change. Press freedom means different things in different countries and within different contexts, making it difficult for any theory to aptly apply, thus, a more detailed set of considerations for understanding media systems outside of the Western world is needed"--

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.

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.

Networked Press Freedom

Author : Mike Ananny
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262549662
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (625 download)

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Download or read book Networked Press Freedom written by Mike Ananny and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-10-31 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reimagining press freedom in a networked era: not just a journalist's right to speak but also a public's right to hear. In Networked Press Freedom, Mike Ananny offers a new way to think about freedom of the press in a time when media systems are in fundamental flux. Ananny challenges the idea that press freedom comes only from heroic, lone journalists who speak truth to power. Instead, drawing on journalism studies, institutional sociology, political theory, science and technology studies, and an analysis of ten years of journalism discourse about news and technology, he argues that press freedom emerges from social, technological, institutional, and normative forces that vie for power and fight for visions of democratic life. He shows how dominant, historical ideals of professionalized press freedom often mistook journalistic freedom from constraints for the public's freedom to encounter the rich mix of people and ideas that self-governance requires. Ananny's notion of press freedom ensures not only an individual right to speak, but also a public right to hear. Seeing press freedom as essential for democratic self-governance, Ananny explores what publics need, what kind of free press they should demand, and how today's press freedom emerges from intertwined collections of humans and machines. If someone says, “The public needs a free press,” Ananny urges us to ask in response, “What kind of public, what kind of freedom, and what kind of press?” Answering these questions shows what robust, self-governing publics need to demand of technologists and journalists alike.

Freedom of the Press

Author : Nancy C. Cornwell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851094768
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Freedom of the Press written by Nancy C. Cornwell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2004-11-15 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative yet accessible analysis of the historical development and contemporary scope of press freedoms in America. Freedom of the Press: Rights and Liberties under the Law examines the evolution of press freedom in America, a particularly relevant topic given the controversy over the role of the press in the war in Iraq, as well as the growing concentration of ownership of the press, and the impact of the Internet on traditional journalism. An opening analysis of challenges from recent developments like Internet journalist Matt Drudge's "Drudge Report" illustrates the opportunities and implications of a press operating without the traditional gate-keeping process. A historical overview of philosophical ideas and English traditions precedes an exploration into the judicial, regulatory, social, political, and economic developments that have shaped press freedoms, addressing such issues as libel, free press versus fair trial, and access to courtrooms. A chapter is devoted to the impact of new communication and transmission technology such as videophones and satellites.

Quest for Equality in Freedom

Author : Francis M. Wilhoit
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000939936
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Quest for Equality in Freedom written by Francis M. Wilhoit and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-14 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes and analyzes the gravest crisis now facing constitutional democracy: the fundamental conflict between liberal and egalitarian values. Particularly stressed in this analysis are such aspects of the crisis as its origins, ideological tensions, and public policy ramifications.

Freedom Rising

Author : Christian Welzel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107034701
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Freedom Rising written by Christian Welzel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-23 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first study to demonstrate the role of cultural change in the global rise of freedoms. In multiple ways, the author illustrates how emerging "emancipative values" intertwine technological and institutional changes into a single trend toward human empowerment. The author interprets his broad and far-reaching findings from societies around the world in a new and coherent framework: the evolutionary theory of emancipation.

Understanding Freedom of the Press

Author : Gina Hagler
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1448894670
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Freedom of the Press written by Gina Hagler and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2013-07-15 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among other freedoms, the First Amendment to the Constitution guarantees a free press. This enlightening book examines the origins of freedom of the press in America and traces many of the important court battles that helped define that freedom. Further, the author explores the continuing evolution of the media today, including the ways in which technology may be changing the meaning of a free press. The text supports curricular requirements by looking at press freedom through the lenses of the law, history, and media literacy. Fascinating historical and recent news photographs enhance the narrative.

Critical Perspectives on Freedom of the Press and Threats to Journalists

Author : Bridey Heing
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 0766098567
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Critical Perspectives on Freedom of the Press and Threats to Journalists written by Bridey Heing and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2018-07-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In political dictatorships or other forms of authoritarian governance, freedoms of the press are often curtailed first before any other liberties are revoked. This is because the press is integral to democracy and to keeping citizens informed of important political happenings so that they can become more informed voters. In some countries, such as Russia, journalists face extreme pressure to toe the party line; if they speak out against the government they are threatened and can even be killed. While most journalists do not fear for their lives in the United States, the press has faced increasing scrutiny from the White House. In this text, various experts weigh in on this important issue so readers can become more informed about the importance of, and the abuses toward, a free media.

The Maroons of Prospect Bluff and Their Quest for Freedom in the Atlantic World

Author : Nathaniel Millett
Publisher : University Press of Florida
ISBN 13 : 0813048397
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Maroons of Prospect Bluff and Their Quest for Freedom in the Atlantic World written by Nathaniel Millett and published by University Press of Florida. This book was released on 2013-08-27 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nathaniel Millett examines how the Prospect Bluff maroons constructed their freedom, shedding light on the extent to which they could fight physically and intellectually to claim their rights. Millett considers the legacy of the Haitian Revolution, the growing influence of abolitionism, and the period’s changing interpretations of race, freedom, and citizenship among whites, blacks, and Native Americans.

The New Censorship

Author : Joel Simon
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 023116064X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 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 2014-11-18 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 our global information ecosystem is stable, protected, and robust. JournalistsÑand the crucial news they reportÑare 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 informationÑa shortage of the news we need to make sense of our globalized world and to fight against human rights abuses, manage conflict, and promote accountability. Drawing on his experience defending journalists on the front lines, he calls on Òglobal citizens,Ó 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 challenging criminal and corrupt forces that seek to manipulate the worldÕs news.