Book description
The latest, definitive assessment of the state of free press around the worldAttacks on the Press is a comprehensive, annual account of press conditions worldwide, focusing this year on the new face of censorship perpetrated by governments and non-state actors.
Compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), the 2017 edition documents new dangers and threats to journalists and to the free and independent media. The risks are a combination of familiar censorship tactics applied in novel ways, and the exertion of pressure through unconventional means or at unprecedented levels. These censorship efforts range from withholding advertising to online trolling, website blocking to physical harassment, imprisonment to the murder of journalists.
In the Americas, governments and non-state actors use new, sometimes subtle ways to limit journalists' ability to investigate wrongdoing. In Europe, authorities deploy intelligence services to intimidate the press in the name of national security. In Asia, governments block access to information online, and in some cases, punish those who manage to get around the obstacles. And throughout the world, terror groups are using the threat of targeted murder to compel journalists to refrain from covering crucial stories or otherwise self-censor.
Attacks on the Press documents how these new forms of censorship are perpetrated and provides journalists with guidance on how to work around them, when possible, and how to ensure their own safety as well as the safety of their sources and people with whom they work. The book enables readers to:
- Examine the state of free media around the world
- Learn which nations violate press freedom with impunity
- Discover the most dangerous beats and regions
- Delve inside specific, increasingly complex challenges
CPJ's mission is to defend the rights of journalists to report the news without fear of reprisal. Attacks on the Press provides a platform for direct advocacy with governments and the diplomatic community, for giving voice to journalists globally, and for ensuring that those journalists have a seat in discussions at the United Nations, the Organization of American States, the European Union, the African Union, and others.
Table of contents
- Introduction: The New Face of Censorship
- 1. Where I’ve Never Set Foot
- 2. From Fledgling to Failed
- 3. A Loyal Press
- 4. What Is the Worst-Case Scenario?
- 5. Thwarting Freedom of Information
- 6. Disrupting the Debate
- 7. Discredited
- 8. Chinese Import
- 9. Willing Accomplice
- 10. Edited by Drug Lords
- 11. Self-Restraint vs. Self-Censorship
- 12. Connecting Cuba
- 13. Supervised Access
- 14. Fiscal Blackmail
- 15. Right Is Might
- 16. Eluding the Censors
- 17. Zone of Silence
- 18. Being a Target
- 19. Fighting for the Truth
- Index
- EULA
Product information
- Title: Attacks on the Press
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2017
- Publisher(s): Bloomberg Press
- ISBN: 9781119361008
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