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Title:

Attacks on the press : journalism on the world's front lines / Committee To Protect Journalists ; editor Alan Huffman ; copy editor Kerry Bailey.

Edition:

2015 edition.

Publisher:

Wiley :

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

239 pages: illustrations, 23 cm.

Subject:

Freedom of the press--History--21st century.
War correspondents.
Journalists--Crimes against.
Government and the press--History--21st century.
Press and politics--History--21st century.
Censorship--History--21st century.
Journalism--Political aspects--21st century.

Other Authors:

Huffman, Alan, editor.
Bailey, Kerry, editor.
Committee to Protect Journalists, author.

Notes:

Includes index.

Contents:

Trends in press freedom: 10 most censored countries threaten jail terms, restrict internet to silence press. Jessica Herreat -- Covering war for the first time-in Syria / Erin Banco -- The roles of conflict reporting are changing / Janine di Giovanni -- Broadcasting murder: militants use media for deadly purpose / Joel Simon and Samantha Libby -- Lack of media coverage compounds violence in Libya / Fadil Aliriza -- Reporting with bodyguards on the Paraguayan border / John Otis -- Between conflict and stability: journalists in Pakistan and Mexico cope with everyday threats / Daniel DeFraia -- Conflating terrorism and journalism in Ethiopia / Jacey Fortin -- We completely agree: Egyptian media in the era of President El-Sisi / Mohamed Elmeshad -- Finding new ways to censor journalists in Turkey / Yavuz Baydar -- Treating the internet as the enemy in the Middle East / Courtney C. Radsch -- Overzealous British media prompt overzealous backlash / Liz Gerard -- Outdated secrecy laws stifle the press in South Africa / Ferial Haffajee -- Amid ebola outbreak, West African governments try to isolate media / Sue Valentine -- For clues to censorship in Hong Kong, look to Singapore, not Beijing / Madeline Earp -- Surveillance forces journalists to think and act like spies / Tom Louventhal -- Two continents, two courts, two approaches to privacy / Geoffrey King -- Journalists grapple with increasing power of European extremists / Jean-Paul Marthoz -- Indian businesses exert financial muscle to control press / Sumit Galhotra -- The death of glasnost: how Russia's attempt at openness failed / Ann Cooper -- Media wars create information vacuum in Ukraine / Muzaffar Suleymanov -- Journalists overcome obstacles through crowdfunding and determination / Jessica Herreat -- Trends in press freedom: 10 most censored countries threaten jail terms, restrict internet to silence press.

ISBN:

9781119088424
1119088429

OCLC:

(OCoLC)898909679

Locations:

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)