UID:
almafu_9958351950402883
Format:
1 online resource(ccxlviii p.) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, 2014. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9780231538336
Content:
Journalists are being imprisoned and killed in record numbers. Online surveillance is annihilating privacy, and the Internet can be brought under government control at any time. Joel Simon, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, warns that we can no longer assume that our global information ecosystem is stable, protected, and robust. Journalists are increasingly vulnerable to attack by authoritarian governments, militants, criminals, and terrorists, who all seek to use technology, political pressure, and violence to set the global information agenda. Reporting from Pakistan, Russia, Turkey, Egypt, and Mexico, among other hotspots, Simon finds journalists under threat from all sides. The result is a growing crisis in information--a shortage of the news we need to make sense of our globalized world and fight human rights abuses, manage conflict, and promote accountability. Drawing on his experience defending journalists on the front lines, he calls on "global citizens," U.S. policy makers, international law advocates, and human rights groups to create a global freedom-of-expression agenda tied to trade, climate, and other major negotiations. He proposes ten key priorities, including combating the murder of journalists, ending censorship, and developing a global free-expression charter to challenge the criminal and corrupt forces that seek to manipulate the world's news.
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Frontmatter --
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Contents --
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Acknowledgments --
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INTRODUCTION A Murder in Pakistan --
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ONE Informing the Global Citizen --
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TWO The Democratators --
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THREE The Terror Dynamic --
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FOUR Hostage to the News --
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FIVE Web Wars --
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SIX Under Surveillance --
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SEVEN Murder Central --
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EIGHT Journalists by Definition --
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NINE News of the Future (and the Future of News) --
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Notes --
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Selected Bibliography --
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Index
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780231160643
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7312/simo16064
URL:
https://doi.org/10.7312/simo16064
