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Attacks on the Press : Journalism on the World's Front Lines.
Title:
Attacks on the Press : Journalism on the World's Front Lines.
Author:
(CPJ), Committee to Protect Journalists.
ISBN:
9781118611371
Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (300 pages)
Series:
Bloomberg ; v.166

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Contents:
Attacks on the Press: Journalism on the World's Front Lines -- Copyright -- Contents -- From the Editors -- 1. The Front Lines -- In Syria, Facing Danger From All Sides -- Africa's Media-Savvy Insurgents Pose New Threat -- In Taliban's Media Evolution, Press Became An Enemy -- 2. Censored -- The Zacatecas Rules: Cartel's Reign Cannot Be Covered -- Extremists Are Censoring The Story of Religion -- In Asia, Three Nations Clip Once-Budding Online Freedom -- 3. Heroes in the Crowd -- Harnessing Power In the Stories of Ordinary People -- Running Toward Danger, Syria's Citizens Become Journalists -- 4. Murdered and Missing -- Disappearances Unexplained Amid Hints Of Cover-Ups -- Bloggers Targeted as Murders Spike in Brazil -- Seeking Justice in Russia, A Mother Turns To Europe -- 5. Political Transitions -- In Iran, Specter of One Election Looms Over the Next -- Disdain for Foreign Press Undercuts China's Global Ambition -- 6. Behind Bars -- Under Cover Of Security, Governments Jail Journalists -- Torture and Injustice in a Small Town -- In Eskinder's Story, A Nation's Disappointment -- 7. Risk and Reward -- The Spy in Your Pocket: Mobile Journalism's Risk -- Lessons From El Salvador: Security Begins With Solidarity -- Is Covering the News Worth the Risk? -- 8. Media and Money -- Once Thriving, Afghan Media Now Endangered -- Oil, Money, and Secrecy in East Africa -- In Government-Media Fight, Argentine Journalism Suffers -- Why Transparency Is Good for Business -- 9. The Interconnected World -- How the Americas Failed Press Freedom -- Repressive Hosts Tarnish The Olympic Image -- Beyond Article 19, A Global Press Freedom Charter -- 10. Trends and Data -- CPJ Risk List: Where Press Freedom Suffered -- Brazil -- Ecuador -- Ethiopia -- Iran -- Pakistan -- Russia -- Somalia -- Syria -- Turkey -- Vietnam -- CPJ Data -- Where Journalists Are Killed.

CPJ Impunity Index -- Where Journalists Are Imprisoned -- Journalists in Exile -- Most Censored Countries -- Index.
Abstract:
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 spotsThe curtailment of Internet freedoms across Southeast Asia, with an emphasis on the draconian measures now in place in Vietnam, Malaysia, and ThailandThe status of investigations into the disappearances of 35 journalists worldwide, and why more than half of those disappeared went missing in Mexico and RussiaThe 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 9/11The state of journalistic freedoms in Iran since the Green Movement and the practice of summary imprisonment of Iranian journalistsHow 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.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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