The public is being kept out of government meetings, denied responses to record requests, and prevented from learning important facts about COVID-19 response.
Plus: “There is no bygone era of a well-informed, attentive public. What we have had in lieu of a well-informed citizenry is what might be termed a ‘load-bearing’ myth — the myth of the attentive public.”
So far in 2017, U.S. Press Freedom Tracker says, there have been 19 arrests of journalists, 12 equipment searches and seizures, 11 physical attacks on journalists, and 4 border stops of journalists.
Despite a fraught political and economic environment for journalists, new outlets in Brazil are now experimenting with fact-checking, longform narrative writing, and citizen media.
Modeled on a successful program for protecting scholars threatened by their regimes, a similar project for journalists could help advance security for reporters working under conditions of limited press freedom.
As the year ends, take a moment to look past business models and apps and think about how you can help the challenged cause of press freedom worldwide.
Petulla, Sam. "In Burma, newspapers are going daily, but the transformation to watch may be in mobile." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 22 Mar. 2013. Web. 16 Apr. 2024.
APA
Petulla, S. (2013, Mar. 22). In Burma, newspapers are going daily, but the transformation to watch may be in mobile. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved April 16, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2013/03/in-burma-newspapers-are-going-daily-but-the-transformation-to-watch-may-be-in-mobile/
Chicago
Petulla, Sam. "In Burma, newspapers are going daily, but the transformation to watch may be in mobile." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified March 22, 2013. Accessed April 16, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2013/03/in-burma-newspapers-are-going-daily-but-the-transformation-to-watch-may-be-in-mobile/.
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