The OSCE Media Freedom Representative Turns Ten: Current and Future Challenges to Press Freedom in the OSCE Region

2009 ◽  
pp. 331-338
Author(s):  
Arnaud Amouroux
Keyword(s):  
Press Freedom ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
Future Challenges

scholarly journals Fri Pres: Media freedom in the Pacific

1997 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-39
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
Full Text ◽  
Television Program ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
The Pacific

Assaults, arbitrary imprisonment, gaggings, threats and defamation cases have become an increasing hazard for Pacific journalists. And they also face mounting pressure from governments to be accountable and to report the truth. But the issue is whose truth and accountability to whom? The full text of the controversial television program shown twice on EM TV in May 1997 to mark the UNESCO World Press Freedom Day.  Fri Pres Part 1 Fri Pres Part 2 Fri Pres Part 3  

scholarly journals Legal Guarantees Of Media Independence In Ukraine And The European Union

2019 ◽  
pp. 111-118
Author(s):  
T.V. Zbyrak
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Criminal Liability ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Information Industry ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
Legal Norms ◽  
Media System ◽  
Protection Of Human Rights ◽  
Media Independence

The article is devoted to the analysis of legal guarantees of media independence in Ukraine and the European Union. The author believes that safeguards are a set of objective and subjective factors aimed at the practical protection of human rights and freedoms, to eliminate any obstacles to their full and proper implementation. The main purpose of the safeguards is to create the necessary conditions for the transformation of the rights and freedoms enshrined in the law from possibilities into reality. It has been established that press freedom should be regarded as a guaranteed right or a guaranteed opportunity to freely establish, publish, edit, read, distribute, publish, publish and publish print media of your choice. The author substantiates the division of guarantees of media independence into normative, institutional (organizational) and procedural immunity as a kind of guarantees of media activity. Legal safeguards include a set of legal norms that ensure the realization and protection of a set of rights that are included in the notion of media freedom. Constitutional guarantees of media freedom are an integral feature of a democratic media system. Guarantees of independence of the broadcasting regulatory bodies are provided first and foremost by the system of their formation. The author has determined that additional measures are necessary to eliminate the restrictions that impede the strengthening and development of the information industry, its infrastructure, providing real support to the activities of journalists and providing specific rules for their protection, expanding the possibilities for access of citizens through this network to information submitted in foreign printed media. media, etc. The guarantee of media independence is also the establishment of disciplinary, civil, administrative or criminal liability.

scholarly journals Noted: Dual purpose resource for media freedom

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 216-217
Author(s):  
Mark Pearson
Keyword(s):  
International Federation ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
Dual Purpose ◽  
The World ◽  
Counter Argument ◽  
Freedom House

"Just how many surveys of the world press freedom do we need? One view is that there can never be enough because, every time Freedom House, Reporters San Frontiéres, the International Federation of Journalists or the Committee to Protect Journalists  releases one, the message of media freedom is disseminated. Of course, the counter argument is that the same message loses its impact when so many competing non-governmental organisations announce their various lists derived form different formulae..."

scholarly journals Review: The struggle for media freedom amid jihadists, gaggers and ‘democratators’

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 197
Author(s):  
David Robie
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
Columbia University ◽  
Mass Killing ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
Digital Revolution ◽  
The World ◽  
The Town

Robie, D. (2015). The struggle for media freedom amid jihadists, gaggers and ‘democratators’. Pacific Journalism Review, 21(2): 197-199. Review of The New Censorship: Inside the global battle for press freedom, by Joel Simon. New York: Columbia University Press, 2015. 236 pp. ISBN978-0-231-16064-3.One of the ironies of the digital revolution is that there is an illusion of growing freedom of expression and information in the world, when in fact the reverse is true. These are bleak times with growing numbers of journalists being murdered with impunity, from the Philippines to Somalia and Syria. The world’s worst mass killing of journalists was the so-called Maguindanao, or Ampatuan (named after the town whose dynastic family ordered the killings), massacre when 32 journalists were brutally murdered in the Philippines in November 2009.

Measuring freedom: Rethinking ranking methodologies

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-101
Author(s):  
Aslı Tunç
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
Quantitative Research Methods ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Freedom House

This article is a critical analysis of the methodology of press freedom indices of two independent international watchdog organizations, Freedom House (<uri xlink:href="https://freedomhouse.org/">https://freedomhouse.org/</uri>) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF-<uri xlink:href="https://rsf.org/en">https://rsf.org/en</uri>). The author argues that press freedom indices tend to offer us a homogenous view of mass media, which facilitates comparisons between countries by masking significant differences and discusses the challenges of dealing with the difference in the conceptualization of media freedom. As a social scientist, she also brings validity and reliability issues, which are crucial in quantitative research methods, into the discussion.

LEGAL BASIS OF PRESS FREEDOM IN IRELAND

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (XX) ◽  
pp. 19-44
Author(s):  
Michał Kaczmarczyk
Keyword(s):  
Freedom Of Expression ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
Legal Basis ◽  
Legal Tradition ◽  
Freedom Of Establishment ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
Media System ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Right

The concept of freedom of the press is closely linked to freedom of expression. Freedom of the media is an instrument of free speech and is derived from the freedom of expression, independence of thought, opinion, ideas and judgement. Freedom of the media is possible only if the state ensures real independence of expression, access to reliable information, freedom of publication and publishing. Respecting media freedom through non-interference by public auReceived thorities is an important part of the European standard of democracy, and is aligned with the essence of the liberal democratic regime. Ireland has a diversified market of newspapers and magazines, created by private entities, operating on the basis of well-developed guarantees of freedom of establishment that are deeply rooted in the Irish legal tradition. Freedom of speech, which is also enjoyed by the media, is enshrined in the Constitution, and appropriate institutions have been established to protect it, defending the right of the media to obtain and disseminate information, but also to safeguard the principles of law and ethics in journalism, combining the right of the press to express opinions and freely describe reality with the right of the beneficiaries of this activity (readers) to obtain information that is reliable, true, honest and credible. This article attempts to characterize the legal basis of press freedom in Ireland (both domestic and international) and to describe the institutions that uphold this freedom, ensuring that the media system functions properly as one of the subsystems of the social system.

Captured Media: Limitations and Structural Hindrances to Media Freedom in Serbia

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 457-482 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Kmezic
Keyword(s):  
Legal Status ◽  
Business Groups ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
Economic Dependence ◽  
Media Ownership ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Internet Censorship

This article investigates persistent limitations to media freedom in Serbia, principally understood as the legal status of press freedom and how this is put into practice (or not). Critically reviewing the set of newly adopted media laws and features of the crisis of press freedom over the past five years, the article suggests that, despite constitutional guarantees, adoption of relevant legislation, and decriminalization of libel, media freedom in Serbia still remains deficient owing to shortfalls in norm implementation and the rise of new challenges such as internet censorship. The findings offer a fuller picture of how a lack of transparency in media funding and media ownership, strong economic dependence of media workers, lack of adequate protection for journalists, and pressure from interconnected political and business groups has led to creeping self-censorship in the Serbian media.

scholarly journals Media freedom and responsibility in South Korea: The perceptions of journalists and politicians during the Roh Moo-hyun presidency

Journalism ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 19 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 1257-1274
Author(s):  
Qian Gong ◽  
Gary Rawnsley
Keyword(s):  
South Korea ◽  
Political Communication ◽  
Political Competition ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
The Political ◽  
Power Relationship ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
The Media ◽  
Conservative Media ◽  
Freedom And Responsibility

This article analyses the perceptions of media freedom and responsibility by journalists and politicians in South Korea during the Presidency of Roh Moo-huyn (2003–2008). It draws on in-depth interviews with 10 journalists and 10 politicians with different political affiliations and interests. Findings suggest that both groups had positive appraisals of the country’s media democratisation. For them, the media could function as a watchdog on political power without having to fear direct political reprisals for doing so. However, the political press remained partially shackled to specific legacies and economic conditions. The most pressing example is the way the paternal power of conservative media owners challenged the editorial independence of journalists. While the Internet media offered some hope to rebalance the power relationship between the conservative and progressive forces, the sensational and hyper-adversarial media motivated by market and political competition emerged as more worrying concerns for the consolidation of democratic political communication in post-transition South Korea. Setbacks in press freedom since 2008 have undermined some of the positive evaluations of the political communication in South Korea, suggesting that the democratic transition in this country resembles ‘a circle rather a straight line’.

scholarly journals Behind the rankings of Pacific nations in the 2011-12 World Press Freedom Index

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Pearson
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Press Freedom ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Pacific Island ◽  
Survey Period ◽  
Media Freedom ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Pacific Island Nations

Commentary: Australia and New Zealand both declined in the 2011-2012 Reporters Sans Frontières/Reporters Without Borders World Press Freedom Index rankings but all other surveyed Pacific Island nations improved their standings. This article reports upon those outcomes and details the methodology used by the international press freedom agency in reaching its annual determinations. It explains that such rankings can never be statistically precise because too many variables are at play between countries and from one survey period to another. Nevertheless, they are indicative and importantly draw attention each year to the widely varying standards applied to media freedom throughout the Pacific region and the wider world.

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