World Press Freedom Day Round-Up: “In 2012, 1 journalist is killed every 5 days.”
- Check out Global Voices’ Threatened Voices Project, which is a collaborative database that maps bloggers who have been threatened.
- The Committee to Protect Journalists has released a Journalist Security Guide that’s really comprehensive (H/T: Future Journalism Project)
- CPJ also has recent article on safer mobile use for journalists and a list of the 10 most censored countries.
- A WNYC interview with reporter Sebastian Junger about the organization he founded, Reporters Instructed in Saving Colleagues, after the death of his friend and colleague Tim Hetherington.
- UNESCO has used the Ushahidi platform to crowdsource a map of World Press Freedom celebrations.
- UNESCO is honoring Azerbaijani journalist Eynulla Fatullayev with its annual Guillermo Cano freedom prize.
- Human Rights Watch is calling for action against Azerbaijan’s “appalling record on freedom of expression.”
- Reporters Sans Frontières reminds us that one journalist is killed every five days (see photo above). This day can be a celebration of freedoms but it’s also a time to consider how much there is to condemn and fight against.
- Here’s RSF’s 2012 Press Freedom Index. And, I encourage you to read through basically everything RSF has posted about journalists under threat.
- The Journalists Freedoms Observatory is noting the deterioration of press freedom in Iraq.
- From Amnesty International: reports on journalists and bloggers under threat in Sudan, Iran and Cuba.
- The International Federation of Journalists has a recently released report on the state of press freedoms in South Asia.
- UNESCO released a report in late March titled “The Safety of Journalists and the Danger of Impunity.”
- There is much cause to examine Pakistan’s press freedom problems. A report has apparently been released by the Pakistan Press Foundation, but I can’t yet find a copy. Be on the look out.
- Freedom House’s 2012 Freedom of the Press survey has an unfortunate stat: only 14.5% of the world’s population live in a country with a free press. There is good news, though. Egypt, Libya and Tunisia have all shown marked improvements with the overthrows of Mubarak, Gaddhafi and Ben Ali.
