A new interdisciplinary study provides a grim warning to dictators and despots, and even leaders in democracies. Curbing press freedoms may irreversibly damage the economy.
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Hassan, like Magufuli before her, has taken office without her own political base and will also have to contend with revived factional manoeuvring.
It’s gospel for First Amendment advocates that lawsuits against news organizations chill freedom of the press. But in an era of rampant misinformation, such legal actions may be more accepted.
There is a deep and widening gulf in trust and communications between the agencies and the media that has clearly boiled over in ways that damage both institutions.
In her ruling, the judge rejected claims that Assange’s case was an assault on press freedom, which must concern anyone who believes in the oversight role that journalists play in a democracy.
Academic freedom is under assault around the world. Academics and students are being killed, injured, detained and disappeared in a pattern of disturbing increases in state repression.
More needs to be done to ensure that journalists can do their important work without fear or favour.
The need for safety of the media and the fact that they reserve the right to convey stories about any subject is uncontested.
Recommendations from a final report offer a few advances in striking the balance between national security and press freedom, but do not go nearly far enough.
Local journalists are afraid that the new law will be used to prosecute anyone who steps out of line.
Over the years, much of Hong Kong’s media has been bought up by China-owned or -affiliated entities. Now, the few remaining independent journalists face a new threat: the city’s national security law.
With the demise of Pierre Nkurunziza, all eyes are on Burundi’s new president as he inherits a political framework that has repressed press freedom and silenced independent media voices.
After Muhyiddin Yassin’s new government came to power in March, tolerance for criticism and dissent has been in short supply.
Attack the press, and you attack the very system that has made places like the US and Australia among the safest and most prosperous in the world.
ABS-CBN, the Philippines main broadcaster, was ordered off air on May 5, in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic.
While Pacific communities need robust public health reporting, local media face harassment and arrest while covering the crisis.
The BBC’s audiences have grown as it provides high quality news an information about the pandemic. But is it doing enough to hold the government to account?
New laws in Albania show one approach to dealing with disinformation – and highlight some pitfalls of selective regulation.
In dismissing the case, Justice Wendy Abraham drew attention to a huge gap in the protection of journalists’ sources under ‘shield laws’, which don’t apply to most search warrants.
In this third “vision statement”, the Labor leader has condemned online platforms for being unwilling to filter out false information.
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Journalism and Communications, Macquarie University
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Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advancing Journalism, The University of Melbourne
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Full Professor in Journalism, Dublin City University
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Reader in International Journalism, City St George's, University of London
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Associate Professor, TC Beirne School of Law, The University of Queensland
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Professor in Media and Communication, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Associate Professor in International Relations & Academic Director of the Royal Air Force College Cranwell, University of Portsmouth
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Caxton Professor of Journalism, University of the Witwatersrand
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Emeritus Professor of Journalism, Cardiff University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of Journalism, City St George's, University of London
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Professor and Lee Hills Chair of Free Press Studies, University of Missouri-Columbia
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Professor of Communications, University of Westminster
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Director of Undergraduate Studies, School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University
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Professor of Media Industries, University of Nottingham