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The Hungarian laboratory for limiting press and civic freedoms

chrysadag Jun 27, 2017 Commentaries 0

By András Dési The Hungarian parliament recently adopted a new law forcing NGOs to register as ‘‘foreign-supported organization” if they receive more than 24,000 Euros from foreign donors per year. With this legislation the Hungarian government and the ruling...

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Points of view on media freedom in the Balkans: the cases of Macedonia and Serbia

chrysadag Jun 9, 2017 Commentaries 0

By Petar Milin and Xhevahire Pruthi Zajazi Media is in the grip of ‘soft-censorship’ and must break free for a democratic future After Macedonia was thrown into political turmoil in 2015, journalism there suffered an unprecedented crisis of integrity. Citizens no...

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Journalists’ Safety Research Network will increase research capacity and knowledge exchange among the community of journalism safety experts

chrysadag May 30, 2017 Commentaries 0

By Sara Torsner Journalistic safety has long been a relatively unexplored topic by academia, but as NORDICOM Professor Ulla Carlsson said at the book launch of The Assault on Journalism, we can now begin to see the emergence of a new academic research field where...

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Terrorism and authoritarianism: lessons from the Middle East region

chrysadag May 8, 2017 Commentaries 0

By Dr. Omar Al-Ghazzi With recurrent terrorist attacks in Europe, it has sadly become commonplace for political figures to repeat the defiant statement “we won’t let terrorists change our way of life”. In addition to the violence and suffering these attacks inflict on...

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How to build a methodology to measure the risk to journalists’ safety in the round?

chrysadag Apr 26, 2017 Commentaries 0

By Sara Torsner It is increasingly understood that journalism safety is a multi-layered problem that must be addressed with reference to a wide range of threats and hostile environments facing  a very diverse community of journalists. Yet current methods of...

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The dynamic tension between the press and authority in the UK

chrysadag Apr 10, 2017 Commentaries 0

By Jonathan Grun Guy Black – Lord Black of Brentwood – was addressing last week’s Institute of Commonwealth Studies conference on threats to press freedom in the Commonwealth when he felt compelled to mention the “elephant in the room” of British press freedom:...

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The dispute over digital terrestrial television licensing in Greece: curiouser and curiouser

chrysadag Mar 8, 2017 Commentaries 0

By Dr. Irini Katsirea Since launching 25 years ago, private television stations in Greece have operated under ‘temporary’ licences. The Council of State (the Supreme Administrative Court of Greece) held that the unlicensed operation of a station did not justify the...

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Journalism in Danger: We must engage journalism students with issues of safety and impunity

chrysadag Feb 15, 2017 Commentaries 0

By Dr. Lada Trifonova Price According to figures from UNESCO’s Division on Safety of Journalists and Impunity, 101 journalists were killed in the pursuit of a story in 2016, which on average constitutes one casualty every four days. This problem is widely recognised...

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