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Release l Press Freedom Index 2013
01 February 2013 | global index, media, press freedom, releaseThe new 2013 PRESS FREEDOM INDEX is now available. Finland, the Netherlands and Norway have distinguished themselves as countries that most respect media freedom. Turkmenistan, North Korea and...
Study: Happiest countries have press freedom
27 August 2012 | blogpost, commentary, correlation, happiness, media, press freedom, research, study, well-beingFreedom of the press is a reliable indicator of a country’s happiness, journalism doctoral student Edson Tandoc Jr. concludes in a new study. Tandoc and Michigan State University’s Bruno Takahashi...
Blogpost: Freedom of the Press 2012: Breakthroughs and Pushback in the Middle East
14 May 2012 | freedom of expression, global index, launch, press freedomThe Middle East and North Africa saw dramatic if precarious gains in press freedom in 2011, and for the first time in eight years, global media freedom did not experience an overall decline,...
Blogpost:: Evaluating The Evaluators- Media Freedom Indexes And What They Measure (GFMD, 16 Jun 2011)
30 June 2011 | blogpost, commentary, global index, media, methodology, press freedomMethodologies, Uses, and Impact,” the daylong gathering brought together experts to discuss the increasingly pressing issue of how to measure media freedom worldwide, particularly those countries...
IAPA releases reports on press freedom for each country in the Americas (IFEX, 12 Nov 2010)
16 November 2010 | cross-country, latin america, press freedom, reportThis is available in: English Español (IAPA/IFEX) - Miami, November 10, 2010 - With more than 500 representatives from the media in the Americas participating, between November 5th and 9th the...
Blogpost: Evaluating the Evaluators (Global Integrity Commons, 27 Sept 2010)
27 September 2010 | blogpost, event, global index, media, methodology, press freedomWhat’s next for media independence and sustainability indices? A study that considers the role of informal information networks and forms of media such as popular songs? An assessment of the role of...
UNESCO’s comparative legal survey on freedom of information translated into Arabic (UNESCO, 8 Aug 2010)
09 August 2010 | arab states, arabic, press freedom06-08-2010 (Paris) Cover page of the publication © UNESCO The second, updated and revised, edition of Toby Mendel’s Freedom of Information: A Comparative Legal Survey has been translated...
Report: Evaluating the Evaluators: Media Freedom Indexes and What They Measure (CIMA, 3 Aug 2010)
03 August 2010 | methodology, press freedom, publication, reportCIMA is pleased to release a new report, Evaluating the Evaluators: Media Freedom Indexes and What They Measure, in cooperation with the Center for Global Communication Studies at the University of...
Report: Globe International 2009 Mongolia media freedom report (IFEX, 1 June 2010)
09 June 2010 | legislation, media, mongolia, press freedomDespite the existence of laws and regulations that protect free media, violations of freedom of the press and against professional journalists continue to occur. Violations of journalists' rights...
Report: Restrictions on Press Freedom Intensify (Freedomhouse, 29 April 2010)
04 May 2010 | global index, media, press freedom, press release, publication, reportWashington April 29, 2010 Global press freedom declined in 2009, with setbacks registered in almost every region of the world, according to a Freedom House study released today. The...