Media Freedom in an Evolving Journalism Landscape

Introduction, Jingrong Tong Part 1: Defining journalism and Measuring Media Freedom 1. Defining Journalism: how a new approach could transform press freedom, Peter Greste; 2. Impunity for human rights violations against journalists: challenges of measurement and pathways to strengthen empirical knowledge, Sara Torsner; 3. Measuring the agenda in the Russian news media: the Navalny Censorship Index, Ilya Utekhin Part 2: Media Freedom in Democratic Countries 4. No Longer the Land of the Free, But Increasingly the Home of the Brave: Press Freedom in the United States, Amy Kristin Sanders; 5. Media freedom in the United Kingdom, Jingrong Tong; 6. The Exception to the Rule? Reporting on the European Convention on Human Rights and protection of media freedom in the UK press, Gemma Horton and Ekaterina Balabanova; 7. Threats to press freedom and journalistic resistance in Southern European countries during COVID-19: The cases of Bulgaria, Greece, Cyprus and Malta, Lambrini Papadopoulou, Lada Trifonova-Price, Theodora A. Maniou, and Marilyn Clark; 8. Conceptualising the Nature and Dimensions of Hateful Harassment on Journalists amid Germany’s Far-Right Surge, Yann Rees and Patrick Peltz; 9. Media Freedom in Japan: Institutional Resilience, Democratic Stability, and Digital Disruption, Yosuke Buchmeier; 10. The Controlled Watchdog: Media Freedom in Trinidad and Tobago, Aurora Herrera; 11. Regulatory Manipulation from Dictatorship to Democracy: The Media, Regulation and Politics in The Gambia, Sulayman Bah Part 3: Media Freedom in Authoritarian or Hybrid States 12. When even exile is unsafe: the rise of transnational repression of journalists, Fiona O'Brien; 13. Fragmented Futures: The Impact of Internet Shutdowns and Censorship in the Global South on Global Digital Governance, Gergely Gosztonyi, János Bálint, and Gergely Ferenc Lendvai; 14. The Rise of Digital Authoritarianism in Türkiye and Media Freedom Under Siege, Ahmet Buğra Kalender; 15. Who Decides? How and why? Legislation and Media Freedom in the Middle East, Miral Sabry Al-Ashry; 16. Media freedom in Algeria’s political and legal contexts, Laeed Zaghlami; 17. Dialogue Earth in China: Adaptation to push the boundary of environmental journalism, Zhong Zhang; Conclusion, Jingrong Tong

Biography

Jingrong Tong is a Senior Lecturer in Media and Information Studies at the University of Sheffield, UK.