Attacks on the Press: Gender and Media Freedom Worldwide (Bloomberg) - Softcover

Committee To Protect Journalists (CPJ)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 111923090X ISBN 13: 9781119230908

Publisher: Bloomberg Press, 2016

Synopsis

The definitive, comprehensive assessment of global press freedom

Attacks on the Press is the definitive guide to the state of press freedom around the globe, with the 2016 edition focusing on gender-based threats to journalists and the media. Compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists, this book contains a collection of analytical reports by freelance journalists and other experts who have an inside view of global media conditions and anti-press violations related to gender, including digital harassment, discrimination, restricted access to newsmakers, imprisonment, and physical and sexual attacks. It also provides guidance for dealing with such threats and restrictions, as well as potential solutions, including safety measures and direct advocacy with the diplomatic community on behalf of threatened journalists around the world, in keeping with CPJ's mission.

Freedom of the press is essential to human rights, and encourages a strong civil society with healthy and sustainable social, political, and economic development. This guide publicly reveals the latest abuses against the press, providing a comprehensive guide to international press freedom, including:

• A survey of the current state of journalist safety around the globe
• An examination of repression tactics based on gender
• A compendium of countries seeking to undermine the freedom of the press
• Accounts of the latest censorship tactics journalists face every day

Those who seek to expose injustices and spread information become easy targets under repressive regimes, during civil war, and in myriad other conditions that empower those who threaten freedom in any form. Attacks on the Press is intended to expose such abuses, particularly those that relate to gender, through comprehensive research and first-hand accounts, and to provide potential solutions.

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From the Back Cover:

THE DEFINITIVE, COMPREHENSIVE ASSESSMENT OF GLOBAL PRESS FREEDOM

In her story about being kidnapped and raped for reporting on Colombia's crime cartels—a harrowing account in the 2016 edition of the Committee to Protect Journalists' Attacks on the Press—Jineth Bedoya Lima makes clear that genderrelated threats to journalists are painfully real, but that they go beyond personal safety. As she was being raped by her captors, Bedoya writes, one of them told her they were sending a message to the media. The brutality was an effort to silence them.

Among the threats that journalists and the media face, some, such as Bedoya's, are specifically gender-related, which is the focus of this edition of Attacks on the Press. Through powerful essays, original reporting, and personal accounts by journalists and CPJ experts, the book examines gender-based online harassment, physical attacks, and institutional discrimination.

Also explored is a strong countercurrent: the courage and perseverance of those who suffer such attacks, from transgender reporters in Uganda to female journalists covering the Libyan conflict from self-imposed exile; from a young reporter who engages Islamic State fighters on social media to the wives, mothers, and friends who spearhead efforts to gain justice for journalists who have gone missing, are imprisoned, or have been killed. The book also provides expert guidance on how to deal with gender-related threats and restrictions, including safety measures and advocacy with the diplomatic community.

Attacks on the Press is the definitive guide to the state of press freedom around the globe, exposing abuses while exploring potential solutions.

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The Committee to Protect Journalists is an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes press freedom worldwide.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomberg Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 111923090X
• ISBN 13: 9781119230908
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176