The New Censorship

Inside the Global Battle for Media Freedom
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-16064-3
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 385 g

Reihe: Columbia Journalism Review Books

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simon, Joel

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften Journalismus & Presse
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikation & Medien in der Politik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: A Murder in Pakistan1. Informing the Global Citizen2. The Democratators3. The Terror Dynamic4. Hostage to the News5. Web Wars6. Under Surveillance7. Murder Central8. Journalists by Definition9. News of the Future (and the Future of News)NotesSelected BibliographyIndex

Leseproben

Read an excerpt from the chapter, "News of the Future (and the Future of News)":

Über Autor(innen)

Joel Simon is the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and has written widely on media issues. He is a regular contributor to Slate and the Columbia Journalism Review, and his articles and commentary have appeared in the New York Review of Books, the New York Times, World Policy Journal, and other publications. He is also the author of Endangered Mexico: An Environment on the Edge and lives in Brooklyn with his family.